Vocabulary Study List

• Acrimonious


  Angry, bitter
• Affable


  Friendly
• Adroit


  Skillful
• Anachronism


  From another time
• Aplomb


  Assurance, self-confidence
• Alimentary


  Nourishment, sustenance
• Amalgam


  Mixture, blend
• Ambivalent


  Mixed feelings
• Ameliorate


  Make better
• Amicable


  Agreeable
• Arid


  Dry out
• Assuage


  To ease
• Ascetic


  Abstinent, non-indulgent
• Autocrat


  Ruler with absolute power
• Axiom


  Accepted truth
• Avarice


  Extremely greedy
• Beatitude


  State of bliss
• Beleaguer


  To cause problems for
• Belie


  Give false impression
• Belligerent


  Hostile
• Benediction


  Blessing
• Bowdlerize


  Censor, expurgate
• Brazen


  Bold
• Brusque


  Abrupt in one's mannerisms
• Bungler


  Amateur, incompetent
• Cacophony


  Harsh mixture of sounds
• Capacious


  Spacious
• Castigate


  Punish
• Caustic


  Corrosive; sarcastic
• Cerebral


  Intellectual
• Chicanery


  The use of deception
• Chaff


  Worthless thing; husk of corn
• Chimerical


  Illusory, imagination
• Compunction


  Feeling remorse
• Concomitant


  Naturally accompanying
• Coniferous


  Needle-like or scale-like
• Conjecture


  Guess, speculation consternation, anxious, dismayed
• Contentious


  Likely to cause argument
• Contiguous


  Next, together
• Contingent


  Subject to change