I love English!

Rod (Canada)
23 words 0 learners

Learn words with Flashcards and other activities

Definition First
Print Flashcards

Other learning activities

Answer a few questions about each word. Use this to prep for your next quiz! Compete with other teams in real time to see who answers the most questions correctly! Test your spelling acumen. Read the definition, listen to the word and try spelling it!

Teaching tools

Create and assign quizzes to your students to test their vocabulary. Assign learning activities including Practice, Vocabulary Jams and Spelling Bees to your students, and monitor their progress in real-time.

Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. prevarication
    the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
  2. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  3. trope
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  4. palter
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead
  5. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  6. perspicacity
    the ability to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
  7. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  8. ostensible
    appearing as such but not necessarily so
  9. confluence
    a place where things merge or flow together
  10. mirth
    great merriment
  11. cachinnation
    loud convulsive laughter
  12. louche
    of questionable taste or morality
  13. cogitate
    consider carefully and deeply
  14. badinage
    frivolous banter
  15. subsume
    contain or include
  16. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  17. apostasy
    rejection of religious beliefs, political party, or cause
  18. apodeictic
    (of a proposition) necessarily true or logically certain
  19. exuviate
    cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
  20. muliebrity
    the state of being an adult woman
  21. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  22. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  23. confluence
    a place where things merge or flow together
Created on Mon Sep 28 09:34:51 EDT 2009 (updated Thu Jul 29 11:30:32 EDT 2010)

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.