Craft and Structure Vocabulary

Craft And Structure Words

• Acclaim

  • To praise enthusiastically.

• Accolade

  • An award or special recognition.

• Acquiesce

  • To accept or comply without protest.

• Ambiguity

  • Uncertainty or lack of clarity.

• Ambiguous

  • Open to multiple interpretation.

• Amorphous

  • Lacking a clear structure or form.

• Anachronistic

  • Belonging to a different historical period.

• Anomalous

  • Deviating from the norm or expectations.

• Arduous

  • Requiring great effort or endurance.

• Artifice

  • Clever or deceitful trickery.

• Assiduous

  • Showing great care and perseverance.

• Augment

  • To increase or add to.

• Auspicious

  • Indicating a favorable outcome or success.

• Austere

  • Severe or strict in manner; lacking luxury.

• Basaltic

  • Relating to volcanic rock or lava.

• Bellicose

  • Demonstrating aggression or a willingness to fight.

• Benevolent

  • Well meaning and kindly.

• Bolster

  • To support or strengthen something.

• Candid

  • Honest and straightforward.

• Capacious

  • Having a lot of space/roomy.

• Capricious

  • Given to sudden changes in mood or behavior.

• Coalesce

  • To come together to form one whole.

• Cogent

  • Convincing and logical.

• Commensurate

  • Corresponding to size, amount, or degree.

• Complacent

  • Satisfied with oneself to a fault, someone very pleased with themselves.

• Concede

  • To admit or acknowledge reluctantly.

• Conducive

  • Making a certain outcome likely or possible.

• Conflated with

  • Combined or confused with something else.

• Confluence

  • A meeting or coming together of things.

• Conjecture

  • A guess or speculation without complete evidence.

• Connotation

  • The implied or associated meaning of a word.

• Consequential

  • Significant or important.

• Consolidated

  • Combined or made stronger.

• Conspicuous

  • Easily noticeable or attracting attention.

• Contend

  • To argue or compete.

• Contention

  • A disagreement or argument.

• Contingent on

  • Dependent on certain conditions.

• Conveyance

  • The act of transporting something.

• Convoluted

  • Complicated and difficult to understand.

• Copious

  • Abundant or plentiful.

• Corroborate

  • To confirm or support with evidence.

• Corrugated

  • Shaped into alternating ridges and grooves.

• Debilitate

  • To weaken or impair.

• Deleterious

  • Harmful or damaging.

• Delineate

  • To describe or outline precisely.

• Demarcated from

  • Set apart of distinguished from something else.

• Desultory

  • Lacking a clear plan or purpose.

• Detrimental

  • Causing harm or damage.

• Dichotomy

  • A division between two opposing things.

• Discernible

  • Noticeable or able to be perceived.

• Discordant

  • Lacking harmony or agreement.

• Disparage

  • To belittle or criticize.

• Disseminate

  • To spread widely.

• Dormant

  • Inactive or temporarily not in use.

• Dubious

  • Doubtful or questionable.

• Efficacy

  • The ability to produce a desired effect.

• Elicit

  • To draw out a response or reaction.

• Elucidate

  • To explain or clarify.

• Eminent

  • Famous and respected in field.

• Emissivity

  • The ability of a material to emit energy as radiation.

• Ephemeral

  • Lasting for a very short time.

• Equivocate

  • To use unclear language to avoid commitment.

• Erratic

  • Unpredictable or inconsistent.

• Erudite

  • Having great knowledge or learning.

• Esoteric

  • Intended for or understood by only a small group.

• Ethnographers

  • Researchers who study cultures and societies.

• Exacerbate

  • To make a problem worse.

• Exorbitant

  • Unreasonably high or excessive.

• Expedite

  • To speed up a process.

• Extrapolate

  • To infer or estimate based on known data.

• Fastidious

  • Very attentive to detail and accuracy.

• Fortuitous

  • Happening by chance often in a lucky way.

• Fruition

  • The point at which a plan or project is realized.

• Galvanize

  • To shock or excite someone into taking action.

• Gregarious

  • Sociable and enjoying company of others.

• Heuristic

  • Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves.

• Hubris

  • Excessive pride or self confidence.

• Idiosyncratic

  • Peculiar or individual in nature.

• Immutable

  • Unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

• Impart

  • To communicate or make known.

• Impenetrable

  • Impossible to pass through or understand.

• Imperative

  • Of vital importance; crucial.

• Imperceptible

  • Impossible to perceive.

• Impetuous

  • Acting quickly without thought or care.

• Inadvertent

  • Not resulting from deliberate planning; unintentional.

• Inadvertently

  • Without intention; accidentally.

• Incongruity

  • A state of being out of place or inconsistent.

• Incongruous

  • Not in harmony or keeping with surroundings.

• Inconspicuousness

  • The state of not easily being seen or noticed.

• Indelible

  • Impossible to remove, forget, or erase.

• Indeterminate

  • Not exactly known, established, or defined.

• Ineffable

  • Too great or extreme to be expressed in words.

• Ineffectual

  • Not producing the desired effect.

• Inexorable

  • Impossible to stop or prevent.

• Inherent

  • Existing as natural or essential characteristic.

• Inhibitory

  • Serving to slow down or restrain a process.

• Insatiable

  • Impossible to satisfy.

• Insipid

  • Lacking flavor, interest or vigor.