Vocabulary University® The Funniest and Toughest Word

Enjoy The Funniest and Toughest Word You'll Ever See From A to XYZ

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Try the 18 SAT/ACT word sets (in 12 different sessions) in our NEW INTERACTIVE puzzle activities that allow answers to be emailed to teachers, parents and friends.

See all 216 SAT/ACT words in 12 NEW puzzles sets listed at:
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This activity is NOT interactive and the answers are given in the list.
Smile! You have permission to make a hard copy for further verbal play.
Don't forget to give attribution to the source of the 24 words below:
"The Grandiloquent Dictionary" by Russell Rocke 1972.

"Hi, I'm Dick Shinary, Chancellor of Literacy at Vocabulary University.

I want to give you 24 of the "Funniest, Biggest and Toughest Word" you absolutely DO NOT NEED TO KNOW BUT ARE FUN!"
Look at these and then try the 18 SAT/ACT words sets in our NEW INTERACTIVE puzzle activities that allow answers to be emailed to teachers, parents and friends at the 12 links below the 24 words.
You can go to our new SAT/ACT puzzles from the TEST PREP pull down menu on our home page at http://www.myvocabulary.com

A = ANANIAS (a teller of untruths; liar)
B = BIBELOT (small artistic object of beauty or rarity)
C = CORNIGEROUS (having horns or horn-like projections)
D = DISCALCED (without shoes; barefot; unshod)
E = ESTIVATE (to spend the summer)
F = FUNAMBULIST (tightrope walker)
G = GALUMPTIOUS (tiptop; first-rate; superlatively good)
H = HEBETUDE (slow in perceiving; dullness)
I = INCRASSATE (to make or become thick or thicker)
J = JUGULATE (to check or surpress by extreme measures)
K = KATABASIS (going down; descent; a retreat, esp. militarily)
L = LENTIGINOUS (full of freckles)
M = MACROTOUS (having large ears)
N = NIDIFICATE (to make a nest)
O = ONEIRIC (of or pertaining to dreams)
P = PLEONASTIC (use of words superfluously; redundant)
Q = QUADRUMANOUS (having all four feet adapted for use as hands; four-handed)
R = REMONTANT (flowering more than once in a season)
S = SERAPHIC (of or like an angel; angelic)
T = THERSITICAL (loud and grossly abusive,foulmouthed, scurrilous)
U = ULOTRICHOUS (having wooly or crisply curly hair)
V = VERECUND (bashful; modest; shy)
W = WRAITH (apparition; phantom; ghost)
XYZ = XEROPHAGY (the eating of dry food, esp. as a form of fast)
Source: "The Grandiloquent Dictionary" by Russell Rocke 1972.

12 Interactive Vocabulary Puzzle Sessions (18 words each session) from A to Z plus categories of words.

We have created 10 sessions of "Top SAT* Words" with a total of 180 words. Each session has 18 words covering from A to Z plus specicalized word lists for foreign words and others. Teachers, students and parents have asked us to assemble all 180 words into a list which we have done below. We hope this will help in the pursuit of a better vocabulary and better test results.
Note: each set of 18 words also has a crossword (CW), definition match (DM), word find (WF) and fill-in-the-blank (FITB) exercise to reinforce greater understanding of these top SAT* words. They are all INTERACTIVE in the new configuration.
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We have organized the words by session and then integrated them into one long list. Glad you found our web site to help you improve your vocabulary! Come back often!"

Session #1:SAT#1 puzzle link
abstract, aesthetic, benevolent, capricious, complacent, conciliatory, devious, diligent, discernible, dogmatic, eccentric, fallacious, indifferent, inquisitive, meticulous, pertinent, plausible, reticent
Session #2:SAT#2 puzzle link
candid, inevitable, lethargy, morose, novice, obscure, ostentatious, precocious, prevaricate, querulous, quiescent, repose, repudiate, soporific, spontaneous, squander, theoretical, virulent
Session #3:SAT#3 puzzle link
apathy, disdain, diverse, enigma, futile, gratuitous, hackneyed, incessant, insidious, integrity, jocular, kindle, ludicrous, provocative, reclusive, reverence, scrutinize, superficial
Session #4:SAT#4 puzzle link
affinity, clairvoyant, emulate, expedite, impetuous, innocuous, mundane, penitent, propensity, regressive, resilient, sedentary, succinct, terse, ubiquitous, vindictive, wanton, zenith
Session #5:SAT#5 puzzle link
ramification, rapacious, recalcitrant, recant, recrimination, redolent, redundant, refutable, relegate, relinquish, remonstrate, reparation, replenish, reprehensible, requisite, resolute, rigorous, rudimentary
Session #6:SAT#6 puzzle link
acumen, chicanery, deleterious, epiphany, facetious, homogeneous, incognito, kinetic, loquacious, lugubrious, nihilism, obsequious, paradigm, precipitous, sanguine, unctuous, vacuous, xenophile
Session #7:SAT#7 puzzle link
acrimonious, alacrity, conjecture, conspicuous, deviate, disparage, erudite, exonerate, extricate, incorrigible, indolent, judicious, mitigate, ostensible, palpable, pandemonium, rectify, surreptitious
Session #8:SAT#8 puzzle link
abject, affluence, analogous, arbitrary, cognizant, compulsory, destitute, disseminate, fortuitous, impeccable, impervious, insatiable, oscillate, prerogative, stringent, truncate, unobtrusive, unscrupulous
Session #9: SAT#9 puzzle link - derived from "foreign", not Latin or Greek, words
Aficionado, Alchemy, Ambiance, Avatar, Bourgeois, Chaparral, Cognoscente, Connoisseur, Dilettante, Imbroglio, Juggernaut, Junta, Malaise, Nirvana, Peccadillo, Raconteur, Vignette, Virtuoso
Session #10: SAT#10 puzzle link - derived from Science/Biology BUG-related words
embryonic, entomologist, indefatigable, indigenous, industrious, iridescent, insatiable, insecticide, larvae, metamorphosis, nemesis, nocturnal, pollinate, proboscis, quarantine, subterranean, trepidation, ubiquitous
Session #11: SAT#11 puzzle link
36 words with the hardest 6 words are already solved for you: abstinence, affectation, alkaline, auspices, boreal, brogue, carnage, clathrate, cryptic, draconian, expatriate, feckless, fez, fissionable, founder, hegemony, insolvency, inviolable, lattice, litigious, malleable, myriad, oxymoron, pelagic, polity, postmodern, pretext, proliferation, rapprochement, reactionary, relegate, resonate, revitalize, substrate, template
Session #12: SAT#12 puzzle link
36 words with the hardest 6 words are already solved for you: abstinence, affectation, alkaline, auspices, boreal, brogue, carnage, clathrate, cryptic, draconian, expatriate, feckless, fez, fissionable, founder, hegemony, insolvency, inviolable, lattice, litigious, malleable, myriad, oxymoron, pelagic, polity, postmodern, pretext, proliferation, rapprochement, reactionary, relegate, resonate, revitalize, substrate, template

ALL 144 WORDS from 8 SESSIONS in alphabetical order:
abject, abstract, acrimonious, acumen, aesthetic, affinity, affluence, alacrity, analogous, apathy, arbitrary, benevolent, candid, capricious, clairvoyant, chicanery, cognizant, complacent, compulsory, conciliatory, conjecture, conspicuous, deleterious, destitute, deviate, (-25-) devious, diligent, discernible, disdain, disparage, disseminate, diverse, dogmatic, eccentric, emulate, enigma, epiphany, erudite, expedite, exonerate, extricate, facetious, fallacious, fortuitous, futile, gratuitous, hackneyed, homogeneous, impeccable, impervious, (-50-) incessant, incorrigible, indifferent, indolent, impetuous, incognito, inevitable, innocuous, inquisitive, insatiable, insidious, integrity, jocular, judicious, kindle, kinetic, lethargy, loquacious, ludicrous, lugubrious, meticulous, mitigate, morose, mundane, nihilism, (-75-) novice, obscure, obsequious, oscillate, ostensible, ostentatious, palpable, pandemonium, paradigm, penitent, pertinent, plausible, precipitous, precocious, prerogative, prevaricate, propensity, provocative, querulous, quiescent, recalcitrant, ramification, rapacious, recant, reclusive, (-100-) recrimination, rectify, redolent, redundant, refutable , regressive, relegate, relinquish, remonstrate, reparation, replenish, repose, reprehensible, repudiate, requisite, resilient, resolute, reticent, reverence, rigorous, rudimentary, sanguine, scrutinize, sedentary, soporific, (-125-) spontaneous, squander, stringent, succinct, superficial, surreptitious, terse, theoretical, truncate, ubiquitous, unctuous, unobtrusive, unscrupulous, vacuous, vindictive, virulent, wanton, xenophile, zenith

36 WORDS from SESSIONS #9 and #10 in alphabetical order:
Aficionado, Alchemy, Ambiance, Avatar, Bourgeois, Chaparral, Cognoscente, Connoisseur, Dilettante, Embryonic, Entomologist, Imbroglio, Indefatigable, Indigenous, Industrious, Iridescent, Insatiable, Insecticide, Juggernaut, Junta, Larvae, Metamorphosis, Nemesis, Malaise, Nirvana, Nocturnal, Peccadillo, Pollinate, Proboscis, Quarantine, Raconteur, Subterranean, Trepidation, Ubiquitous, Vignette, Virtuoso

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