Advanced Vocabulary List
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- Stipulate
- Specifically require or state as a condition.
- Subsume
- Include something as part of a larger category.
- Subversive
- Seeking to weaken or overthrow an established system.
- Succumb
- Give in or fail to resist.
- Supposition
- An assumption or belief without certain proof.
- Unobtrusive
- Not noticeable or attention-grabbing.
- Surmise
- Guess based on limited evidence.
- Transpose
- Switch the position or order of things.
- Abate
- Become less intense or severe.
- Surreptitious
- Secretive, especially because something is being hidden.
- Fecundity
- Ability to produce many offspring, ideas, or results.
- Facetious
- Joking about something that should be taken seriously.
- Excise
- Cut out or remove.
- Diminutive
- Very small.
- Impervious
- Unaffected by or unable to be penetrated by something.
- Eschew
- Deliberately avoid.
- Unnerved
- Made nervous or unsettled.
- Belie
- Give a false impression of; contradict the true situation.
- Imperious
- Arrogant and commanding.
- Attrition
- Gradual reduction or wearing away.
- Emblematic
- Representative or symbolic of something.
- Expound
- Explain something in detail.
- Abound
- Exist in large numbers or amounts.
- Perturbation
- Disturbance, disruption, or worry.
- Alleviate
- Make a problem or pain less severe.
- Attenuate
- Weaken or reduce.
- Vindictive
- Wanting revenge.
- Lambast
- Criticize very harshly.
- Emanate
- Come or flow out from a source.
- Impugn
- Challenge or attack the truth, honesty, or reputation of something.
- Pernicious
- Very harmful, especially gradually.
- Conflate
- Combine two things as though they are the same.
- Augment
- Increase or add to.
- Unfounded
- Not supported by evidence.
- Harbinger
- A sign that something is coming.
- Spurious
- False or not genuine.
- Contrived
- Artificial or forced; not natural.
- Extoll
- Praise highly.
- Repertory
- A collection or supply of works, skills, or performances.
- Tantamount
- Essentially equal to or the same as.
- Extrapolate
- Use known information to predict or estimate something unknown.
- Oblique
- Indirect or not straightforward.
- Restitution
- Payment or action meant to repay for loss or damage.
- Itemize
- List things individually.
- Auxiliary
- Additional or providing extra support.
- Indispensable
- Absolutely necessary.
- Perfunctory
- Done with little effort or interest.
- Anachronistic
- Belonging to the wrong time period; outdated.
- Paradoxically
- In a way that seems contradictory but may still be true.
- Efface
- Erase, remove, or make less noticeable.
- Gratification
- Satisfaction or pleasure.
- Foreground
- Emphasize or make something especially important.
- Archetypal
- A perfect or typical example of something.
- Imbue
- Fill something with a quality, feeling, or idea.
- Iconoclasm
- Rejection or attack of traditional beliefs or customs.
- Annihilate
- Completely destroy.
- Counterfactual
- Describing something that did not actually happen.
- Haughty
- Arrogantly superior.
- Forsake
- Abandon or give up.
- Sagacity
- Wisdom and good judgment.
- Corroborate
- Confirm or support with evidence.
- Antecedent
- Something that came before; a predecessor.
- Ascribe
- Attribute something to a cause or source.
- Concede
- Admit that something is true, often reluctantly.
- Benevolent
- Kind and generous.
- Forfeiture
- Loss of something because of a rule, mistake, or wrongdoing.
- Evince
- Show or clearly demonstrate.
- Entrench
- Establish something so firmly that it is difficult to change.
- Entail
- Involve or require as a necessary result.
- Disconcerting
- Unsettling or confusing.
- Dogmatic
- Stubbornly certain that one's beliefs are correct.
- Precarious
- Unstable, uncertain, or risky.
- Foretell
- Predict what will happen.
- Innocuous
- Harmless.
- Negate
- Cancel out or make ineffective.
- Inadvertently
- Accidentally; without intending to.
- Induce
- Cause or bring about.
- Lament
- Express sadness or regret about.
- Mystifying
- Confusing or difficult to understand.
- Presume
- Assume something is true without complete proof.
- Prefigure
- Suggest or foreshadow something that will happen later.
- Overt
- Obvious and openly shown.
- Postulate
- Propose or assume something as true for an argument.
- Premeditated
- Planned beforehand.
- Preclude
- Prevent something from happening.
- Quarrel
- Argue or disagree.
- Promulgate
- Officially announce or spread an idea, rule, or law.
- Perpetual
- Continuing indefinitely; never-ending.
- Pragmatic
- Practical and focused on what works.
- Proclaim
- Announce publicly or strongly.
- Repudiate
- Reject or refuse to accept.
- Sanction
- Officially approve; can also mean a penalty for wrongdoing.
- Scale
- Size, level, or extent of something.