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conventional 100 based on accepted practice; traditional; customary;normal; ordinary; orthodox convention,unconventional underhanded or sneaky way worthy of consideration; condescending

1 conventional (100) based on accepted practice; traditional; customary;

normal; ordinary; orthodox (convention,unconventional)

underhanded or sneaky way

worthy of consideration; condescending (dismiss)

(aesthetics, aesthete, unaesthetic)

unbiased; not personal; not subjective; true(objectivity)

an agreement, especially after an argument; tomake up; to overcome discord; to try to be inclusive(reconciliation, conciliatory, irreconcilable)

confirmed (speculate, speculation)

approachable; friendly; genial; gregarious (access,inaccessible)

manners; refinement (decorous, indecorous)

rash; impetuous; unrestrained; capricious(impulses)

ridiculous; to mock; to satirize (derision, derisory,risible)

holding it down; to repress (suppression)

overconfident; self-satisfied; so unwary as to be

14 reverent (66) deeply honoring or respectful—and so not joking

around; venerating (revere, reverence, reverential,irreverent)

significant; pertinent (relevance, irrelevant)

good judgment; circumspect; wary (prudence,imprudent)

a strong reaction; inconsequential

communicate; to depict

meaning at odds with the apparent meaning;

humorous (irony)

something (ambivalence)

emphasizing the practical; expedient (pragmatism,pragmatist)

sensible (irrational, rationale, rationalize)

hypothetical (abstraction)

29 distinct (57) clearly separate from others; not identical;

different; clear; conspicuous; lucid (distinction,distinctive, indistinct)

(felicity, infelicity)

persistent; tenacious (resolution, irresolute,resolve, unresolved)

elements or qualities (diversity, diversify)

inconsequential (trivialize, triviality)

discriminate (discerning, discernment,indiscernible)

restrained (temperate, temperance, intemperate)

scene or situation; to show; to convey (depiction)

40 compelling (51) to arouse a feeling irresistibly; forceful; incisive;

provocative; engaging (compel, compulsion,compulsory)

one way or the other; apathetic (indifference)

additions to, especially as in adding fictitiousdetails to a story (embellishment)

43 supplant (50) to replace as better

elaborate story, as in to lie (fabrication, fabricator)

(unparalleled)

someone or something; primary (dominate,domination, predominant)

people; tension or unease between people, andoften the resulting confusion (discordant, concord,accord)

effort to change a situation is wasted (futility)

tolerant; condoning (indulge, overindulge, indulgent)

angered (indignity)

varied

her from blame; to exonerate (vindication)

(exemplar, exemplify)

(inhibition)

58 discredit (46) to harm someone’s reputation; to show something

should not be trusted or believed (credit)

same time in history; modern (contemporaries,contemporaneous)

(provocative, provocation)

(solicit, solicitude)

logically understandable; lucid (incoherent)

66 comprehensive (44) all-inclusive; thorough; complete; encompassing a

great deal

one way; uncertain; doubtful; dubious; notdefinitive (ambiguity, unambiguous)

affected; not modest or reserved (pretense,pretension)

words; a formal speech (rhetorical)

transient; evanescent

legitimate (validity, invalid)

73 contempt (43) looking down on others or feeling superior to them;

to feel that someone or something deserves greatdisrespect; condescension (contemptuous)

reserved (self-restraint)

(impetuosity)

nothing to do with any longer (repudiation)

tentative; conclusive; authoritative; decisive(defining, indefinite)

travel in different directions (diverge, converge)

of a discussion momentarily (digression,digressive)

distinguish or discern (subtlety)

short-lived; transitory; ephemeral; evanescent(transience)

88 inconsequential (40) not worth noticing; unimportant; so insignificant

as to have no consequences; negligible; trivial; trite(consequence)

especially with an aim to finding faults (scrutiny,inscrutable)

proof (assertion, assertive)

something’s growth

(narrate, narrator, narration)

uninspired; hackneyed; mundane; banal (prose)

corroborate (unsubstantiated, substantive,substantial; insubstantial)

best; sanguine (optimism, optimist)

someone; to accuse (denunciation)

treat with contempt (condescending,condescension)

political matters; biased; not detached or objective(bipartisan, nonpartisan)

102 lucid (38) clear; easily understood; transparent; coherent

(elucidate, pellucid)

champion; a proponent (advocacy)

crowd; to see something as different; todiscriminate; to discern (distinguished,indistinguishable)

(disillusion, illusive)

(apprehension, apprehend)

own; missing the good old days (nostalgic)

(benevolence)

harmonious; solicitude (sympathetic, sympathies,unsympathetic)

make impure; to decay (corruption, incorruptible)

(polemics, polemicist)

to satirize (mockery)

an agreement by settling differences; agreeing tosomething partially (uncompromising)

116 disdain (34) considering someone or something beneath oneself;

to have contempt for; to despise; condescension

to the point of disrespect (presume, presuming,presumptuous)

deferral)

perspective; biased; not objective

spontaneity; impulsive; impetuous; acting withoutrestraint (caprice)

to advocate; to commend (endorsement)

(obscurity)

close-minded; intractable (dogma, dogmatism)

clever (elusive)

133 tenacious (33) persistent, especially in the face of continuing

challenges; stubborn; resolute; rarely if everresigned (tenacity, pertinacious)

agreement; to reconcile to parties (mediator,mediation)

exacting

ignored; inconsequential; trivial

circumstances

especially of something bad or harmful; tomoderate; to alleviate (mitigating, unmitigated)

mutable

(mutable)

meticulous

(rancorous)

(reservation, unreserved)

what you would expect without having to give muchthought to the matter (intuit, intuition,

counterintuitive)

147 satirize (31) to imitate so as to make fun of; to mock, especially

in writing (satire, satiric)

to the point; terse (concision, conciseness)

project, as with a colleague (collaboration,collaborator)

permanently

decisions suddenly and without thought;

happening naturally, or without human effort;

misunderstanding; to make explicit; to elucidate(explication, inexplicable)

(exasperation)

noticeable; easily distinguished or discerned;

prominent (inconspicuous)

(amiable)

162 widespread (29) widely spread out or shared; commonly held;

pervasive; abundant

abundant; prevalent (pervade)

future (prophet, prophesy)

faith in humanity; lacking any optimism (cynic,cynicism)

(attenuate)

unambiguous; conspicuous (implicit)

give a false or misleading impression

something

(illegitimate, legitimacy)

or contemptuously (patron, patronage)

176 contentious (28) to fight; to deal with difficulty; to argue a point

(contention, contend, contender)

178 diligent (28) always careful and hardworking; thorough;

persistent; assiduous (diligence)

fitting in at home; indigenous (domesticate,domesticity)

stickler for academic correctness (pedant,pedantry)

apprehensive; diffident

often exploiting them selfishly (opportunistic,opportune)

188 discriminating (27) selective; making a clear distinction between

things; to treat differently; discerning;

distinguishing (indiscriminate, indiscriminant,discrimination)

something; dated and no longer needed; obsolete;

no longer contemporary (anachronism)

parochial

192 obstinate (26) stubborn; intractable (obstinacy)

religion or system of beliefs; more generally, anybelief that goes sharply against the acceptedviewpoint on a subject; a radically unconventionalidea or action (heretical, heretic)

(inarticulate)

conventional; relating to superficial conventions(formality, informal)

point of being indifferent; neutral (detachment)

(conform; conformity; nonconformist)

(complementary)

advocate

208 resilient (26) quickly bouncing back; flexible under pressure;

resolute (resilience)

(adverse)

point of view; sympathetic (empathetic)

gregarious; amiable; amicable (congenial)

soluble, insoluble)

(impediment)

obscuring one’s meaning, often in response to aquestion (unequivocal, equivocate)

resolute

(transcendental)

disagreement

225 tolerant (25) accepting of differences with others; able to deal

with; amicable (tolerance, tolerable, tolerate)

231 circumscribe (24) to draw a line around; to restrict; to define

(circumscription)

decisive

profession; a collaborator (collegial)

vapid

an aspect of something (attribution)

(naiveté)

244 idiosyncratic (24) a quirky or highly individualistic way of doing

something or behaving; relating to an odd personalhabit or characteristic; oddly or extremely

unconventional (idiosyncrasy)

trite; mundane; prosaic; hackneyed (banality)

enigmatic (penetrating)

tractable; gregarious; conciliatory; amenable

banal; hackneyed; trivial; inconsequential

toxicity)

discriminating; astute

(accountable, unaccountable)

260 anecdote (23) a brief personal story, account, or illustration, often

humorous (anecdotal)

pretending to be something; not typical behavior(affected, unaffected)

262 resignation (23) reluctantly accepting a less than ideal situation;

reconciling oneself to a bad but apparentlyinevitable situation; giving in (resigned)

(composed, composition)

wrong; to indulge

tiring (tedium)

position or authority to force others; authoritarian

exploitative, exploitation, unexploited)

objective (neutralize, neutrality)

especially when dealing fairly with others (scruple,scruples, unscrupulous)

peremptory; officious (authoritative)

275 refinement (22) elegance; improving something, often by making it

more pure; urbanity; decorum (refine, unrefined)

a tentative theory; an educated guess; a likelyexplanation (hypothetical, hypotheses)

(duplicitous)

conventional (orthodoxy, unorthodox)

(omen)

implicit

from a particular viewpoint; an attribute

officious (peremptorily, preempt)

tactless (intrusion; intruder)

290 prevalent (21) common; existing everywhere; widespread;

abundant; pervasive (prevail, prevailing)

refinement of tastes; discernment

ephemeral; transitory

acclaimed

usually found elsewhere; domestic

(repressive, repression, irrepressible)

pragmatic (expedite, inexpedient)

uninspired; prosaic; banal; trite; hackneyed

elitist (inclusive)

308 engaging (20) interesting almost to the point of exciting; tending

to attract and occupy someone’s attention;

compelling (engaging, disengaged)

decorus (urbanity)

attitude; contemptuous or condescending humor(sarcastic)

313 surreptitious (20) not out in the open; sneaky; clandestine

second-hand

provincial

(improvisational)

or the other; indifferent (apathy)

evidence for; to substantiate (corroboration,corroborative)

320 unprecedented (20) without precedent; highly unusual; remarkable;

never seen before; momentous (precedent)

something more bearable; to alleviate; to mitigate

conspicuous