Word Groups Flashcards
Changing quickly
Capricious
Mercurial
Volatile
Bold
Audacious
Courageous
Dauntless
Hesitate
Dither Vacillate Oscillate Waver Teeter
Act quickly
Abrupt Impetuous Apace Precipitate Headlong
Innocent/inexperienced
Credulous Gullible Ingenuous Naive Novitiate Tyro
Difficult to understand
Abstruse Bemusing Esoteric Opaque Recondite Ambiguous Cryptic Inscrutable Paradoxical Turbid Arcane Enigmatic Obscure Perplexing
Easy to understand
Articulate Evident Pellucid Cogent Limpid Eloquent Lucid
Smart/learned
Astute
Perspicacious
Canny
Erudite
Criticise/criticism
Aspersion belittle berate calumny castigate decry defame/defamation denounce deride/derisive diatribe disparage excoriate gainsay harangue impugn inveigh lambaste obloquy objurgate opprobrium pillory rebuke remonstrate reprehend reprove revile tirade vituperate
Carousel
Bacchanalian Depraved dissipated Iniquity Libertine libidinous licentious Reprobate ribald Salacious sordid Turpitude
Truth
Candour/candid Fealty frankness Indisputable indubitable Legitimate Probity Sincere Veracious verity
Falsehood
Apocryphal Canard chicanery Dissemble duplicity Equivocate erroneous ersatz Fallacious feigned Guile Mendacious mendacity Perfidy Prevaricate Specious spurious
Biting (as in of wit or temperament)
Acerbic acidulous acrimonious asperity
Caustic
Mordant mordacious
Trenchant
Praise
Acclaim accolade aggrandize Encomium eulogise extol Fawn Laud/laudatory Venerate
Harmful
Baleful baneful Deleterious Inimical injurious insidious Minatory Perfidious pernicious
Timid/timidity
Craven Diffident Pusillanimous Recreant Timorous Trepidation
Boring
Banal Fatuous Hackneyed Insipid Mundane Pedestrian Platitude Prosaic Quotidian Trite
Weaken
Adulterated Enervate exacerbate Inhibit Obviate Stultify Undermine Vitiate
Assist
Abet advocate ancillary Bolster Corroborate countenance Espouse Mainstay munificent Proponent Stalwart sustenance
Hostile
Antithetic Churlish Curmudgeon Irascible Malevolent Misanthropic Truculent Vindictive
Stubborn
Implacable Inexorable Intractable Intransigent Obdurate Obstinate Recalcitrant Refractory Renitent Untoward Vexing
Beginning/young
Burgeoning Callow Engender Inchoate Incipient Nascent
Generous/kind
Altruistic Beneficent Clement Largess Magnanimous Munificent Philanthrophic Unstinting
Greedy
Avaricious Covetous Mercenary Miserly Penurious Rapacious Venal
Terse
Compendious Curt Laconic Pithy Succinct Taciturn
Overblown/wordy
Bombastic Circumlocution Garrulous Grandiloquent Loquacious Periphrastic Prolix Rhetoric Turgid Verbose
Dictatorial
Authoritarian Despotic Dogmatic Hegemonic Hegemony Imperious Peremptory Tyrannical
Hatred
Abhorrence Anathema Antagonism Antipathy Detestation Enmity Loathing Malice Odium Rancor
Beginner/amateur
Dilettante Fledgling Neophyte Novitiate Proselyte Tyro
Lazy/sluggish
Indolent Inert Lackadaisical
Languid Lassitude Lethargic
Phlegmatic Quiescent Slothful
Torpid
Pacify/satisfy
Ameliorate Appease Assuage
Defer Mitigate Mollify
Placate Propitiate Satiate
Slake
Forgive
Absolve Acquit Exculpate
Exonerate Expiate Palliate
Redress Vindicate
Poor
Destitute
Ensuring
Impecunious
Indigent
Favouring/not impartial
Ardent/ardour Doctrinaire Fervid Partisan Tendentious Zealot
Denying of self
Abnegate Abstain Ascetic Spartan Stoic Temperate
Walking about
Ambulatory
Itinerant
Meander
Peripatetic
