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As you know that Vocabulary is the cornerstone of your English
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Commodious – spacious, roomy
Compel – to force
Complicity – state of being an accomplice (partner)
in a crime
Compliment – praise, an expression of esteem or
approval
Concede – to give in, to surrender
Conciliatory – agreeable, friendly
Concoct – to cook up or invent
Concord - agreement
Conduit – a pipe, passage, channel
Confluence – a convergence, a coming together
Confound – to frustrate, confuse
Connotation – a meaning or association suggested by
a word beyond its definition
Contusion – bruise, injury
Convalescence – the gradual return to health after
illness
Copious – abundant, plentiful
Corpulent – very fat
Cosmopolitan – worldly, sophisticated
Credulity – readiness to believe
Cursory – unmethodical, brief to the point of
being superficial
Daft – silly, insane, foolish
Daunting - intimidating
Dearth – lack, scarcity
Defame – to destroy the reputation of
Deft – skilled, adept
Defunct – no longer used or existing
Deleterious - harmful
Delude – to deceive, mislead
Deluge – a great flood or something that
overwhelms like a flood
Derelict – run-down, abandoned
Desolate – deserted, lifeless
Despondent – discouraged, hopeless, depressed
Destitute - impoverished
Diaphanous – transparent, light, airy
Dictate – to pronounce, command, prescribe
Differentiate – to distinguish, to make different
Dilapidated – in a state of disrepair
Diligent – careful, hardworking
Diminish – to decrease or make smaller
Diminutive – miniature, small
Discrete – separate, distinct, individual
Disparage – to criticize, degrade, belittle
Dissonance – lack of harmony or agreement
Divergent – different, deviating, contrary
Diverse - varied
Divisive – causing conflict or opposition
Domicile – a residence, a home
Doppelganger – a ghostly double of a living person
Douse – to drench, saturate
Dutiful – careful to fulfill obligations
Dynamic – characterized by continuous change or
activity
Elocution – the art of public speaking
Elucidate – to clarify
Empathetic – feeling another’s pain as one’s own
Empathy – the experience of another’s feelings
as one’s own
Enervate – to weaken, make weary
Enervated – lacking energy, weakened, exhausted
Entity – something that exists as a discrete
unit
Entomology - the study of insects
Envious – jealous
Erect – to construct, to raise
Erroneous – mistaken, incorrect
Espouse – to support or to marry
Espy – catch sight of, glimpse
Ethereal – heavenly, exceptionally delicate or
refined
Euphoric - - elated, overjoyed
Exacerbate – to make more violent or intense
Excursion - - a trip, an outing
Exemplary – serving as an example
Exigent - critical, urgent
Existential – relating to existence
Exorbitant - excessive
Extol – to praise
Extravagant – excessive, over-the-top
Fabricate – to invent, make-up, concoct
Fabulist – a teller of fables; a liar
Facile - easy
Fallacious – incorrect, misleading
Familial – relating to family
Fatuous – silly, foolish
Fecund – fertile, fruitful
Feign – to fake or pretend
Feral – savage, wild, untamed
Fetter – to restrain, chain, tie
Fey – magical, vague, unworldly
Fickle – characterized by changeableness,
whimsical
Figurative - symbolic
Firmament – the sky, the heavens
Flabbergasted – astounded, stupefied
Flaccid – limp
Flattery – compliments, sycophancy
Flout – to scorn, ignore, show contempt for
Fluctuate – to vary irregularly
Flux – a state of constant change or a flow
Forage – to rummage, scavenge, graze for food
Forestall – to delay, impede
Forlorn – lonely, hopeless
Formidable – arousing fear or alarm
Forsake – to abandon, forget
Fortify – to strengthen
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