101-200 tier 2

Scintillate

sparkle; flash; be animated; be full of life;

Aghast

filled with great surprise or fear; horrified

Extraneous

Irrelevant, unrelated, or unnecessary.

Scrupulous

Extremely careful, principled, meticulous

Tutelage

guardianship; training; function of a tutor; instruction

Sublime

Of such excellence or grandeur as to inspire great admiration or awe

Peripatetic

walking about from place to place (to work); moving;

Allegorical

symbolic

Melancholy

gloomy; morose; blue;

Infelicity

unsuitability; inappropriateness

Buttress

To support

Tacit

Implied, not directly spoken

Pugnacious

Belligerent, aggressive

Benevolent

Kind, considerate

Dichotomy

division into two opposite parts; split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)

Haughty

Arrogant

Ameliorative

improving; making better

Stately

Graceful, dignified

Seethe

be violently disturbed; boil; (of a liquid) move about wildly as if boiling

Residual

remaining; left over; of a residue;

Aberrant

Unusual, atypical, abnormal

Fledgling

Beginner, tyro

Stipulate

state as a necessary condition (of an agreement); make express conditions; specify

Perspicacious

Insightful, clever, able to see clearly

Frugal

Living economically, without wasting resources

Anomie

social disorder; lack of norms

Debonair

friendly, charming, and fashionably dressed; aiming to please;

Seminal

related to seed or semen; germinal; creative; providing a basis for further development

Illuminate

To brighten, to bring light to

Felicity

happiness; appropriateness (of a remark, choice, etc.); quality of being felicitous

Splenetic

Peevish, easily irritated

Figment

Something imagined or invented; not real

Miscellany

mixture of writings on various subjects; collection of various items

Tractable

Obedient, easily controlled

Antithetical

directly opposed

Proliferate

To grow rapidly, to expand

Implacable

cannot be appeased; relentless

Temerity

Boldness, audacity

Refute

disprove; prove to be false;

Unerring

Perfect, infallible, without errors

Tangible

able to be touched; real; concrete; palpable; possible to realize or understand

Trenchant

Keen, sharp, effective

Ephemeral

Temporary, transient

Apostasy

abandonment of belief

Zeal

Passion, enthusiasm

Insensate

without feeling; lacking sense; foolish

Intrinsic

Natural, innate

Contend

struggle; compete; assert earnestly; state strongly

Predecessor

former occupant of a post

Recant

To retract or take back a statement

Quintessential

representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.

Vitriolic

Extremely angry, poisonous

Apotheosis

elevation to godhood; an ideal example of something

Deluge

Flood, overwhelming amount

Despoil

Besmirch, Damage

Perturb

disturb greatly

Reactionary

Opposed to progress or change

Opaque

Cannot be seen through 2. indirect, obscure

Accrue

To accumulate or increase over time (esp. money/benefits).

Sporadic

intermittent; on and off

Capacious

Having a lot of space inside; roomy

Ardor

Passion, zeal

Monotonous

dull; repetitive

Inchoate

recently begun; not explicit; at the beginning of development; rudimentary; elementary;

Sanguine

Optimistic, positive thinker

Mirage

Hallucination, an imagined vision

Unregenerate

making no attempt to change one's bad practices

Incipient

Imminent, about to occur

Intractable

unruly; difficult to manage;

Advocate

Support

Gloss

to ignore

Invoke

to call upon (a principle, authority, or higher power) for support or justification.

Demeanor

A person's appearance or behavior

Stanch

stop or check flow of blood;

Hubris

Extreme pride or arrogance

Mitigated

made less severe;

Dearth

a lack or shortage of something

Esteem

Respect, value

Tinge

give a slight degree of a color or quality to;

Atavistic

primitive; ancestral

Unyielding

not giving up

Provisional

tentative; temporary

Credulous

Too ready to believe things; gullible

Efface

To wipe out, to erase

Empirical

Based on observation or experience rather than theory

Inscrutable

difficult to understand; impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious

Languor

lack of physical or mental energy; lassitude; depression

Perquisite

any gain above stipulated salary;

Aver

To state as a fact, to announce

Obdurate

Stubborn, pigheaded

Balk

To hesitate, to refuse

Circumstantial

Based on inference rather than direct evidence

Delirium

mental disorder marked by confusion; uncontrolled excitement;

Lucid

Clear, easy to understand

Tranquil

Calm, peaceful, serene

Unpalatable

distasteful; disagreeable

Extant

still in existence

Aversion

firm dislike

Slapdash

hasty and careless; haphazard; sloppy (carelessly done)

Levy

impose (a fine); collect (a payment); impose or collect (a tax);