Week 31

1. Anomaly (n) – an abnormality, irregularity
2. Arbiter (n) – a judge
3. Attenuated (adj) – decreased, weakened, thinned
4. Concomitant (adj) – attending, accompanying
5. Deleterious (adj) – harmful; bad; venomous
6. Dissent (v/n) –protest, disagree/disagreement
7. Efficacy (n) - effectiveness
8. Ferment (n/v) – agitation, turmoil, uproar
9. Fervid (adj) – enthusiastic, passionate, avid
10. Heresy (n) – lack of faith, dissent, disbelief
11. Incumbent (adj) – morally required; obligatory/ holding a position
12. Innocuous (adj) – mild, innocent, harmless
13. Lassitude (adj) – fatigue, weariness
14. Milieu (n) – setting, environment
15. Ostensible (adj) – seeming, pretended, outward
16. Propagate (v) – to multiply, spread, produce
17. Prudent (adj) – cautious, wise
18. Spurious (adj) – counterfeit, false, specious
19. Strident (adj) – rough, harsh, shrill
20. Surfeit (n) – excess, superabundance

Week 32

1. Alleviate (v) – to make easier, lighten
2. Ambiguous (adj) – vague, unclear
3. Archaic (adj) – out of date
4. Bizarre (adj) – odd, strange
5. Celerity (n) – rapidity, speed
6. Condone (v) – to pardon, excuse
7. Emulate (v) – to strive to equal, rival
8. Expedite (v) – to carry out promptly
9. Extraneous (adj) – irrelevant, superfluous
10. Facetious (adj) – witty, comical, humorous
11. Menial (adj) – humble, degrading
12. Paltry (n) – of little importance
13. Prodigious (adj) – enormous, extraordinary
14. Profound (adj) – intense, deep
15. Rabid (adj) – furious, mad, fanatical, fervent
16. Salubrious (adj) – healthy, wholesome
17. Succinct (adj) – concise, brief, laconic
18. Trivial (adj) – unimportant, worthless, petty
19. Usurp (v) – to seize, grab
20. Venerable (adj) – respected, worshiped

Week 33

1. Abjure (v) – to abstain from, renounce
2. Allay (v) – to soothe, calm
3. Complacent (adj) – self-satisfied
4. Connoisseur (n) – an expert
5. Debilitate (v) – to weaken, incapacitate
6. Deter (v) – discourage, hinder
7. Discreet (adj) – prudent, careful, cautious
8. Evanescent (adj) – fleeting, transient
9. Foment (v) – to stir up, instigate, ferment
10. Glean (v) – to collect, gather
11. Impetuous (adj) - impulsive
12. Occult (adj) – supernatural, mysterious
13. Penitent (adj) – regretful, confessing guilt
14. Propensity (n) – inclination, disposition
15. Quarry (n) – something hunted or pursued
16. Reproach (v/n) – rebuke, reprimand, blame
17. Slovenly (adj) – disorderly, untidy
18. Somber (adj) – sad, gloomy
19. Tantamount (adj) – equivalent, identical (to)
20. Wary (adj) – watchful, shrewd, cagey, suspicious

Week 34

1. Antiquated (adj) – out of date, obsolete, archaic
2. Asinine (adj) – stupid, silly
3. Au courant (adj) – up to date, current
4. Calumny (n) – slander, false accusation
5. Commodious (adj) – spacious, large
6. Cumbersome (adj) – unwieldy, burdensome
7. Disheveled (adj) – disorderly, slovenly
8. Divulge (v) – reveal, disclose
9. Façade (n) – front, superficial appearance
10. Fastidious (adj) – choosy, particular
11. Fluctuate (v) – to shift, alternate
12. Grimace (n) – facial expression of disgust
13. Interrogate (v) – to question
14. Noisome (adj) – unwholesome, foul
15. Pittance (n) – a small amount
16. Site (n) – a location
17. Tenacious (adj) – stubborn, tough
18. Unkempt (adj) – disheveled, slovenly
19. Unmitigated (adj) – unrelieved, unadulterated, complete
20. Vigil (n) – wakeful watching

Week 35

1. Cliché (n/adj) – a commonplace phrase/common
2. Countenance (v/n) – to permit/façade
3. Debacle (n) – ruin, fiasco, disaster
4. Effrontery (n) - boldness
5. Equanimity (n) – self control
6. Flabbergasted (adj) - astounded
7. Gaunt (adj) – haggard, thin
8. Hirsute (adj) - hairy
9. Lampoon (v) – to ridicule
10. Mien (n) – bearing, appearance, manner
11. Nonentity (n) – one of no importance
12. Parable (n) – a moralistic story
13. Pensive (adj) – reflective, thoughtful
14. Refute (v) – to disprove
15. Sanctimonious (adj) – hypocritically religious
16. Stupor (n) – insensible condition, daze
17. Vivacious (adj) - lively
18. Whet (v) – stimulate, awaken
19. Whimsical (adj) – fanciful, quirky
20. Wince (v) – to flinch, draw back

Weeks 31-35 Review

Week 31:
Anomaly
Arbiter
Deleterious
Efficacy
Fervid
Incumbent
Milieu
Propagate
Prudent
Spurious

Week 32:
Ambiguous
Bizarre
Emulate
Expedite
Extraneous
Menial
Profound
Succinct
Usurp
Venerable

Week 33:
Allay
Connoisseur
Deter
Evanescent
Glean
Penitent
Quarry
Reproach
Tantamount
Wary

Week 34:
Antiquated
Asinine
Commodious
Cumbersome
Disheveled
Façade
Fluctuate
Pittance
Tenacious
Unmitigated

Week 35:
Cliché
Debacle
Flabbergasted
Gaunt
Nonentity
Pensive
Refute
Sanctimonious
Vivacious
Whet

Week 36 Words

1. Acme (n) – zenith, pinnacle, peak
2. Candid (adj) – open, honest, frank
3. Compassion (n) – kindness, sympathy
4. Copious (adj) – plentiful, abundant, ample
5. Covet (v) – to wish, want, envy
6. Degrade (v) – to lower, make contemptible
7. Depict (v) – to portray, picture
8. Dexterity (n) – physical or mental skill
9. Epitome (n) – something that represents the best, quintessence
10. Genre (n) – a style of painting or literature
11. Grotesque (adj) – fantastic, strange, bizarre
12. Ignominious (adj) – disgraceful, humiliating
13. Ingratiate (v) – to charm, win confidence
14. Naïve (adj) – unworldly, unsophisticated
15. Penury (n) - poverty
16. Perfidious (adj) – false, treacherous
17. Repugnant (adj) – repulsive, disgraceful
18. Unsavory (adj) – morally bad, disagreeable, offensive
19. Vehemently (adv) – passionately, violently, eagerly
20. Venial (adj) – pardonable, forgivable

Week 37 Words

1. Antipathy (n) – hate, distaste, dislike
2. Austere (adj) – simple, unadorned or strict, hard
3. Conducive (adj) – helpful, beneficial
4. Confront (v) – come face to face with
5. Erudite (adj) – scholarly
6. Felicitous (adj) - happy
7. Germane (adj) – relevant, appropriate
8. Halcyon (adj) – calm, peaceful
9. Iconoclast (n) – attacker of beliefs, image-breaker
10. Motivate (v) – to provoke, stimulate, inspire
11. Nascent (adj) – beginning to develop or exist
12. Phobia (n) – a persistent fear or dislike
13. Rationalize (v) – use/give a reason other than the real one
14. Servile (adj) – submissive, slavish
15. Sojourn (n) – a temporary stay
16. Superfluous (adj) – surplus, excessive
17. Tenable (adj) – defendable, supportable
18. Therapy (n) – a curing or healing process
19. Vertigo (n) - dizziness
20. Volition (n) – choice, willpower

Week 38 Words

1. Audacity (n) – daring, boldness
2. Capitulate (v) – make terms, surrender
3. Chicanery (n) – trickery, underhandedness
4. Docile (adj) – easy to manage, passive
5. Facet (n) – one side of a person or situation
6. Fatal (adj) – disastrous, deadly
7. Foist (v) – pass as genuine, pass off slyly
8. Glib (adj) – smooth of speech, slick, persuasive
9. Homogeneous (adj) – uniform, same
10. Legerdemain (n) - sleight of hand, deceptive adroitness
11. Malleable (adj) – capable of being formed or shaped
12. Passé (adj) – old fashioned, obsolete
13. Procrastinate (v) – to put off, delay
14. Reticent (adj) – reserved, silent, uncommunicative
15. Retort (v) – to reply, answer
16. Stagnant (adj) – inactive, dull, motionless
17. Stigmatize (v) – to mark with a disgrace
18. Tacit (adj) – understood, implied, not stated
19. Tantalize (v) – to tease/torment by offering good w/o coming through
20. Trend (n) – general direction, inclination, fashion

Week 39 Words

1. Belated (adj) – delayed, late
2. Callous (adj) - unfeeling
3. Decrepit (adj) – worn out, broken down
4. Delineation (n) – description in words, sketch
5. Demeanor (n) – bearing, conduct, disposition
6. Flay (v) – to scold harshly or to strip off the skin
7. Heinous (adj) – hatefully evil
8. Imperturbable (adj) – serene, steady, calm
9. Infraction (n) – a violation
10. Machiavellian (adj) – not principled, governed by opportunity, sneaky
11. Opprobrium (n) – insult, scorn
12. Pandemonium (n) – uproar, disorder
13. Redress (v) – to right a wrong
14. Saga (n) – a heroic story
15. Staunch (adj) – firm, trusty, strong
16. Turpitude (n) – evil, wickedness, vileness
17. Unconscionable (adj) – without conscience, unreasonable
18. Vacillate (v) – to fluctuate, hesitate
19. Vindicate (v) – to justify, absolve
20. Vituperation (n) – abuse, blame

Week 40 Words

1. Augment (v) – to increase, enlarge
2. Cant (n) – insincere, meaningless talk
3. Clique (n) – a small, exclusive group of people, a coterie
4. Contort (v) – to twist violently
5. Elucidate (v) – to clarify
6. Extol (v) – to praise highly
7. Facile (adj) – easily accomplished or attained
8. Fatuous (adj) – inane, foolish, silly
9. Imperceptible (adj) – extremely slight or gradual
10. Lassitude (adj) – weakness, weariness
11. Magnanimous (adj) – noble, generous
12. Mentor (n/v) – tutor, coach
13. Proximity (adj) – nearness
14. Repertoire (n) – works an artist is ready to perform
15. Rhetoric (n) – use of language (exaggerated at times)
16. Umbrage (n) – offense, resentment
17. Unwieldy (adj) – bulky, cumbersome
18. Vapid (adj) – dull, uninteresting
19. Vilify (v) – to slander, malign
20. Vitiate (v) – to destroy the use or value

Weeks 36-40 Review

Week 36:
Acme
Compassion
Copious
Depict
Dexterity
Epitome
Genre
Ingratiate
Naïve
Vehemently

Week 37:
Austere
Rationalize
Conducive
Servile
Erudite
Sojourn
Felicitous
Tenable
Motivate
Volition

Week 38:
Facet
Reticent
Glib
Retort
Malleable
Stagnant
Passé
Tantalize
Procrastinate
Trend

Week 39:
Belated
Infraction
Callous
Machiavellian
Demeanor
Redress
Flay
Vacillate
Imperturbable
Vindicate

Week 40:
Augment
Imperceptible
Clique
Magnanimous
Elucidate
Mentor
Extol
Repertoire
Facile
Vapid

Week 41 Words

1. Advent (n) – coming of important event, arrival
2. Allude (v) – to suggest, hint
3. Bogus (n) – fake, counterfeit
4. Curry (v) – to seek favor through flattery
5. Denote (v) – to mean, show, indicate
6. Impious (adj) – irreverent, lacking respect
7. Insidious (adj) – treacherous, sly, sinister
8. Intrinsic (adj) – inherent, innate
9. Nutritive (adj) – having nourishing properties
10. Pall (v) – to become dull, cease to please
11. Potpourri (n) – a mixture, medley
12. Proffer (v) – to offer
13. Propriety (n) – correctness, suitability
14. Raucous (adj) – shrill, harsh
15. Sanction (v) – to certify, endorse
16. Satiety (n) – surfeit, excess, fullness
17. Shibboleth (n) – a catchphrase
18. Spate (n) – a rush or flood
19. Substantiate (v) – to ratify or confirm
20. Succulent (adj) - juicy

Week 42 Words

1. Artifice (n) – strategy, trickery, pretense
2. Artless (adj) – naïve, innocent
3. Begrudge (v) – to be resentful or reluctant
4. Blasé (adj) – indifferent, not responsive to excitement
5. Callous (adj) – unfeeling, hardened
6. Capricious (adj) – fanciful, whimsical
7. Comely (adj) – handsome, beautiful
8. Delve (v) – to do research, dig
9. Diversity (n) – change, variety
10. Ennui (n) - boredom
11. Expedient (adj) – fit, advisable
12. Expurgate (v) – to remove objectionable parts or passages
13. Frenetic (adj) – frenzied, frantic
14. Gratuity (n) – a tip
15. Manifest (adj/v) – obvious, evident or to show/exhibit
16. Negligible (adj) – inconsiderable, trifling
17. Qualm (n) – a pang of conscience or uneasiness
18. Quandary (n) – a dilemma, doubt
19. Replenish (v) – to restock or refill
20. Requisite (adj) - necessary

Week 43 Words

1. Aloof (adj) – reserved, apart, distant
2. Ameliorate (v) – to relieve, improve
3. Atrophy (v) – waste away
4. Benevolent (adj) – charitable, kindly
5. Criterion (n) – test, model, standard
6. Cynic (n) – a skeptic, pessimist
7. Guise (n) – appearance, manner, mien
8. Iniquity (n) – wickedness, injustice
9. Largess (n) – liberality, gift, gratuity
10. Maim (v) – to cripple, disable
11. Mercenary (adj) – greedy, motivated by desire for gain
12. Mollify (v) – to appease, pacify
13. Pariah (n) – a social outcast
14. Pragmatic (adj) – practical, based on experience
15. Repent (v) – to desire making amends, regret
16. Roster (n) – a list of names
17. Stunted (adj) – held back from natural growth
18. Subservient (adj) – servile, obsequious
19. Unctuous (adj) – affectedly emotional, sycophantic
20. Vestige (n) – evidence, trace

Week 44 Words

1. Canard (n) – a made up sensational story
2. Carnage (n) - slaughter
3. Defamatory (adj) – slanderous, offensive
4. Deluge (n) – a flood
5. Deprecate (v) – to express disapproval
6. Devout (adj) – sincere, religious
7. Diminutive (adj) – small, tiny
8. Dulcet (adj) – sweet or melodious to the ear
9. Excoriate (v) – to criticize severely or to skin
10. Frail (adj) – weak, delicate
11. Futility (n) - uselessness
12. Impromptu (adj) – offhand, spur of the moment
13. Libel (n) – degradation by writing/publishing
14. Malevolent (adj) – ill-intentioned, ill-disposed
15. Nullify (v) – to cancel, abolish
16. Plaintiff (n) – the complaining party (legally)
17. Potent (adj) – intense, strong, powerful
18. Profuse (adj) – abundant, overflowing
19. Reputed (adj) – believed, thought, supposed
20. Technology (n) – applied science

Week 45 Words

1. Appalled (adj) – shocked, dismayed
2. Bagatelle (n) – a trifle
3. Brigand (n) – a bandit, robber
4. Callow (adj) – inexperienced, youthful
5. Corpulent (adj) – obese, overweight
6. Decapitate (v) – to behead
7. Emissary (n) – an agent
8. Livid (adj) – pale or fuming/outraged
9. Martinet (n) – a strict disciplinarian
10. Penchant (n) – a strong leaning in favor, proclivity
11. Raconteur (n) – a skilled storyteller
12. Rail (v) – to use abusive language, scold
13. Raiment (n) – clothing, dress
14. Rift (n) – an opening, split
15. Ruminate (v) – to reflect upon, ponder
16. Sullen (adj) – grim, ill-humored
17. Taut (adj) – tense, on edge, stiff
18. Termagant (n) – a shrew, a scolding woman
19. Wistful (adj) – wishful, pensive, longing
20. Yen (n/v) – a strong desire, craving

Review Weeks 41-45

Week 41:
Allude
Bogus
Curry
Denote
Impious
Nutritive
Potpourri
Propriety
Spate
Substantiate

Week 42:
Artless
Callous
Comely
Expedient
Frenetic
Gratuity
Manifest
Qualm
Quandary
Requisite

Week 43:
Atrophy
Benevolence
Guise
Maim
Mollify
Pariah
Pragmatic
Repent
Stunted
Subservient

Week 44:
Carnage
Defamatory
Deprecate
Devout
Dulcet
Excoriation
Impromptu
Libel
Plaintiff
Potent

Week 45:
Appalled
Decapitation
Emissary
Livid
Penchant
Raconteur
Rail
Raiment
Termagant
Yen