ENGLISH VOCABULARY

• acrimonious


  angry, bitter
• affable : friendly
• alimentary: nourishment, sustenance
• amalgam - mixture, blend
• ambivalent: mixed feelings
• ameliorate: make better
• amicable: agreeable
• anachronism: from another time
• aplomb: assurance, self-confidence
• arid: dry out
• ascetic - abstinent, non-indulgent
• assuage: to ease
• autocrat: a ruler with absolute power
• avarice: extremely greedy
• axiom: accepted truth
• beatitude: state of bliss
• beleaguer: to cause problems for
• belie: give false impression
• belligerent: hostile
• benediction: blessing
• bowdlerize: censor
• brazen: bold
• brusque: abrupt in one's mannerism
• bungler: amateur, incompetent, inept, ineffective
• cacophony: harsh mixture of sounds
• capacious: spacious
• castigate: punish
• caustic: corrosive, sarcastic
• cerebral: intellectual
• chaff: worthless thing, husk of corn
• chicanery: use of deception
• chimerical: illusory, imagination
• compunction: feeling remorse
• concomitant: naturally accompanying
• coniferous: needle-like scale or scale like
• conjecture: guess, specualtion
• consternation: anxious, dismayed
• contentious; likely to cause arguement
• contiguous: next, together
• convivial: friendly lively