English Spelling Words

Spelling Words #1

Abstemious

sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.

Acumen

the ability to judge well; keen discernment

Auspicious

favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate.

Belie

to show to be false; contradict

Bellicose

inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious

Bowdlerize

to expurgate/remove (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable

Chicanery

trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry

Churlish

difficult to work or deal with; rude; miserly

Circumlocution

the use of more words than necessary to express an idea

Deciduous

not permanent; transitory

Deleterious

harmful; injurious.

Diffident

lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.

Enervate

to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken

Equinox

the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth’s equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth

Echelon

a level of worthiness, achievement, or reputation

Facetious

not meant to be taken seriously or literally

Fatuous

foolish or insane, silly especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.

Feckless

ineffective; incompetent; futile

gauche

someone who is socially clumsy or tactless

hegemony

leadership or predominant influence/domination exercised by one nation over others esp. smaller nations.