Rare Words¶
Barron’s sets¶
| Set 01 | Set 02 | Set 03 | Set 04 | Set 05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| inveigh (80e-7) | gesticulate (67e-7) | doddering (87e-7) | importune (56e-7) | irate (668e-7) |
| vacillate | hirsute (132e-7) | abjure (247e-7) | connubial (74e-7) | sinecure (139e-7) |
| blase | puissant (164e-7) | recondite (255e-7) | asinine (107e-7) | pariah (485e-7) |
| recant | vituperation | vapid (256e-7) | shibboleth (125e-7) | frenetic (653e-7) |
| vitriolic | procrastinate (252e-7) | maim (266e-7) | doleful (262e-7) | qualm (119e-7) |
| pugnacious | squeamish | histrionic (428e-7) | perpetrate (307e-7) | domicile (1354e-7) |
| feint | capitulate | extol (458e-7) | temerity (360e-7) | fervid (159e-7) |
| fractious | nettle (385e-7) | paragon (483e-7) | mien (369e-7) | consternation (1280e-7) |
| nepotism | lassitude | felon (609e-7) | irascible (376e-7) | castigate (179e-7) |
| largesse | felicitous (490e-7) | vivacious (634e-7) | diatribe (503e-7) | delude (344e-7) |
| trenchant | commodious | connoisseur (675e-7) | embellish (526e-7) | potentate (195e-7) |
| adroit | repulse (554e-7) | culminate (698e-7) | prodigy (552e-7) | asperity (238e-7) |
| incontrovertible | abhor (594e-7) | glean (732e-7) | puny (589e-7) | sumptuous (1308e-7) |
| germane | sabbatical | obviate (738e-7) | sultry (613e-7) | proffer (330e-7) |
| succulent | magnanimous | inviolable (783e-7) | eschew (747e-7) | |
| comely | erudite (768e-7) | implore (863e-7) | culpable (902e-7) | |
| perfunctory | obsolescence (811e-7) | emaciated (967e-7) | laudable (903e-7) | |
| divulge (860e-7) | inveterate | dexterity (1488e-7) | carnage (1055e-7) |
| Set 06 | Set 07 | Set 08 | Set 09 | Set 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| legerdemain (119e-7) | complicity (2003e-7) | impugn (216e-7) | indoctrinate (165e-7) | prognosticate (58e-7) |
| stentorian (183e-7) | consummate (1762e-7) | remiss (417e-7) | interject (233e-7) | dulcet (123e-7) |
| noisome (219e-7) | insatiable (1455e-7) | evanescent (714e-7) | umbrage (279e-7) | jeopardise (216e-7) |
| turpitude (261e-7) | omnipotent (1443e-7) | brawl (655e-7) | quip (316e-7) | nonentity (222e-7) |
| fetter (266e-7) | fret (1289e-7) | passe (664e-7) | jaunty (465e-7) | begrudge (244e-7) |
| aspirant (529e-7) | antiquated (1167e-7) | infamy (917e-7) | bristle (512e-7) | fulsome (288e-7) |
| profligate (656e-7) | indigent (1028e-7) | impertinent (930e-7) | contrite (577e-7) | interloper (288e-7) |
| gregarious (683e-7) | exult / exultation (952e-7) | drudgery (971e-7) | peruse (583e-7) | surfeit (346e-7) |
| aegis (791e-7) | afflict (681e-7) | demeanor (1021e-7) | assiduous (589e-7) | encumbrance (385e-7) |
| emissary (813e-7) | bane (675e-7) | quell (1062e-7) | evince (613e-7) | apostate (553e-7) |
| inordinate (1080e-7) | dregs (660e-7) | delve (1111e-7) | nondescript (724e-7) | unconscionable (584e-7) |
| construe (1138e-7) | brash (639e-7) | cursory (1399e-7) | supplication (958e-7) | gullible (662e-7) |
| persevere (1233e-7) | cupidity (357e-7) | itinerant (1419e-7) | stipulate (964e-7) | rabid (711e-7) |
| complacent (1284e-7) | mollify (263e-7) | indiscriminate (1432e-7) | frustrate (1104e-7) | levity (766e-7) |
| diminutive (1516e-7) | venial (247e-7) | supine (1635e-7) | curtail (1117e-7) | allay (932e-7) |
| bona fide (1634e-7) | potpourri (206e-7) | wan (1411e-7) | vestige (935e-7) | |
| perspicacious (115e-7) | skirmish (1220e-7) | wane (940e-7) | ||
| retort (1325e-7) | bulwark (953e-7) | |||
| strident (996e-7) | ||||
| flagrant (1038e-7) | ||||
| indolent (1052e-7) | ||||
| paucity (1382e-7) | ||||
| sanguine (1481e-7) |
Other¶
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| schadenfreude (54e-7) | lacerate (64e-7) | murmuration (3e-7) | shivoo (0.1e-7) | crapulous (11e-7) |
| botch (92e-7) | dither (146e-7) | senectitude | laterigrade (0.1e-7) | parergon (20e-7) |
| collude (296e-7) | sensitize | handsel (9e-7) | fallals (3e-7) | equivoque |
| aplomb | ingratiate | certifiable (85e-7) | froideur | cloudland |
| skittish | fumble (392e-7) | skulk | asseverate (12e-7) | ataraxia (35e-7) |
| benighted (-ness) | vibe | de rigueur | fulminate | contumacious |
| loathe | flaunt | dabble (217e-7) | ostracize | umbra |
| muddle (705e-7) | grope (438e-7) | adjourn | lackadaisical | cerulean |
| congregate | derail | rescind (565e-7) | bedlam | antic (157e-7) |
| petrified | deplete | plenitude | aloofness | boorish |
| commendable | cringe | frolic | quagmire (492e-7) | corpulent |
| fledgling | brackish (673e-7) | rectitude | multitudinous | bilious (333e-7) |
| vindication (1289e-7) | scour | blatantly (984e-7) | amass | bellicose |
| penchant | perishing | inadvertent | modus operandi | calamitous |
| tally | faux | flair | igneous | baleful (445e-7) |
| meagre | affront (1235e-7) | heiress | garner | defamatory |
| deteriorate | allotment | lousy (1401e-7) | egregious | foreboding (1093e-7) |
| provenance (1627e-7) | subsumed (1564e-7) | savvy (1778e-7) | interminable (1393e-7) | concomitant (3237e-7) |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| equanimous (11e-7) | puckish (40e-7) | paralogize (0.06e-7) | oscitant (0.5e-7) | cris de coeur (1e-7) |
| hubristic | platitudinous (63e-7) | bonzer (3.6e-7) | spoony (10e-7) | fugacious (14e-7) |
| effulgent (91e-7) | mordant (236e-7) | muckrake (6e-7) | uxorious (37e-7) | susurration (17e-7) |
| dowdy (204e-7) | pendulous (244e-7) | rebarbative (23e-7) | sine die (56e-7) | shrive (27e-7) |
| feckless (219e-7) | munificent | ruminative (83e-7) | dudgeon (112e-7) | beastie (42e-7) |
| fecund | impish (296e-7) | risible (124e-7) | noblesse oblige (116e-7) | scapegrace (69e-7) |
| gustatory | querulous (319e-7) | salubrious (254e-7) | wheedling (140e-7) | runnel (89e-7) |
| dilatory (283e-7) | petulant (480e-7) | sclerotic (292e-7) | turgid (248e-7) | stevedore (99e-7) |
| fulsome | cranky (602e-7) | taciturn | voluble (340e-7) | desuetude (99e-7) |
| execrable (308e-7) | parsimonious (613e-7) | redolent | statecraft (549e-7) | aleatory (108e-7) |
| guile(-less) | nefarious | sagacious (628e-7) | tempestuous (598e-7) | lorn (104e-7) |
| garrulous | obtuse (748e-7) | serpentine | ravenous (687e-7) | saturnine (134e-7) |
| histrionic | propitious | reticent | verdant | vainglorious (156e-7) |
| effusive (437e-7) | quiescent (903e-7) | recalcitrant (1148e-7) | voracious (769e-7) | rambunctious (227e-7) |
| incendiary | frugal (927e-7) | tenacious | tremulous (919e-7) | juggernaut (282e-7) |
| fastidious (938e-7) | auspicious (1486e-7) | evocative | withering (1120e-7) | serendipity (334e-7) |
| insolent | noxious (1550e-7) | discerning (1840e-7) | zealous (2477e-7) | demure (539e-7) |
| efficacious (1820e-7) | pernicious (2114e-7) | obstinate (2042e-7) | ubiquitous (4151e-7) | meritorious (1109e-7) |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| petrichor (0.3e-7) | umbrous (0.9e-7) | green-collar (0.2e-7) | jamboree (55e-7) | nitpicky (11e-7) |
| defenestrate (2e-7) | brumous (1e-7) | coruscant (2e-7) | minx (66e-7) | sashay (34e-7) |
| hagridden (3e-7) | sesquipedalian (11e-7) | conglobate (2e-7) | damnedest (160e-7) | interdigitate (42e-7) |
| obfuscatory (19e-7) | tenebrous (41e-7) | kerfuffle (8e-7) | beeline (194e-7) | tartness (61e-7) |
| frowzy (27e-7) | vagary (53e-7) | pulchritude (30e-7) | infest (213e-7) | inundate (136e-7) |
| dulcet (123e-7) | sophomoric (78e-7) | pollyanna (153e-7) | repartee (259e-7) | infuriate (146e-7) |
| gloaming (147e-7) | euphony (84e-7) | craven (205e-7) | rekindle (332e-7) | deliriously (175e-7) |
| insouciance (169e-7) | irrefragable (102e-7) | demur (222e-7) | jettison (358e-7) | splurge (188e-7) |
| circumlocution (176e-7) | pellucid (145e-7) | perfidious (247e-7) | clairvoyant (386e-7) | immiscible (290e-7) |
| antediluvian (218e-7) | imbroglio (162e-7) | scintillating (286e-7) | unflinching (388e-7) | innervate (350e-7) |
| acerbic (272e-7) | propinquity (173e-7) | opprobrium (346e-7) | artisanal (496e-7) | humdrum (361e-7) |
| celerity (319e-7) | meed (175e-7) | lacuna (427e-7) | sheen (966e-7) | squirm (448e-7) |
| blithe (375e-7) | salacious (251e-7) | smattering (444e-7) | impromptu (1001e-7) | blankly (808e-7) |
| abrogate (396e-7) | palimpsest (281e-7) | inchoate (620e-7) | malevolent (1131e-7) | profuse (809e-7) |
| abstruse (553e-7) | quibble (320e-7) | quandary (668e-7) | sophomore (1143e-7) | imperceptible (888e-7) |
| circumspect (680e-7) | timorous (334e-7) | avarice (823e-7) | hiatus (1144e-7) | thither (906e-7) |
| inculcate (771e-7) | sonorous (747e-7) | onus (929e-7) | nourish (1401e-7) | crux (1272e-7) |
| indefatigable (988e-7) | specious (754e-7) | succinct (1288e-7) | tenet (1401e-7) | veracity (1286e-7) |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| greeb (0.2e-7) | comfortingly (132e-7) | ultracrepidarian (0.3e-7) | athleisure (0.2e-7) | maffick (0.9e-7) |
| tantalize (88e-7) | unbeknownst (269e-7) | forgettery (1e-7) | notabilia (5e-7) | cannikin (1e-7) |
| toupee (93e-7) | blip (281e-7) | holus-bolus (3e-7) | true-blue (45e-7) | divagate (2e-7) |
| mockingbird (115e-7) | idiosyncrasy (295e-7) | chinwag (4e-7) | centenarian (54e-7) | exurb (5e-7) |
| misogynistic (245e-7) | surreptitious (444e-7) | moggy (6e-7) | centenarian (72e-7) | malinger (22e-7) |
| impersonate (255e-7) | perilously (446e-7) | memoriter (12e-7) | puffery (84e-7) | perambulator (48e-7) |
| prescience (338e-7) | meander (580e-7) | purloin (41e-7) | prelapsarian (104e-7) | sotto voce (131e-7) |
| goatee (362e-7) | valour (673e-7) | slumberous (53e-7) | brinkmanship (104e-7) | dissemble (150e-7) |
| relegate (387e-7) | inequity (824e-7) | oleaginous (56e-7) | hireling (105e-7) | ovine (203e-7) |
| vexing (615e-7) | culpable (902e-7) | limerick (104e-7) | immortalize (133e-7) | amalgamate (206e-7) |
| lurk (685e-7) | incredulous (938e-7) | Luddite (117e-7) | vim (178e-7) | invigorate (259e-7) |
| candour (715e-7) | sprawl (1001e-7) | cantankerous (269e-7) | castigate (179e-7) | awestruck (289e-7) |
| irritate (914e-7) | pejorative (1009e-7) | winsome (286e-7) | conflate (344e-7) | exculpatory (355e-7) |
| corroborate (917e-7) | implicate (1011e-7) | imprimatur (308e-7) | hedonism (561e-7) | fete (367e-7) |
| knack (1156e-7) | compendium (1030e-7) | digression (729e-7) | irate (668e-7) | instantiate (501e-7) |
| permeate (1182e-7) | blasphemy (1164e-7) | superlative (754e-7) | conflagration (746e-7) | conundrum (721e-7) |
| infiltrate (1289e-7) | docile (1206e-7) | placid (1023e-7) | coalesce (999e-7) | jumble (1009e-7) |
| volition (1676e-7) | conjugal (1329e-7) | bewilderment (1201e-7) | ire (1136e-7) | inalienable (1203e-7) |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lickspittle (8e-7) | sole meuniere (6e-7) | mussitation (0.3e-7) | minatory (42e-7) | smaragdine( 0.6e-7) |
| dairymaid (21e-7) | beleaguer (11e-7) | incogitant (0.3e-7) | jejune (71e-7) | mumpsimus (1e-7) |
| aubergine (104e-7) | dingbat (28e-7) | daymare (2e-7) | lachrymose (74e-7) | sumpsimus (1e-7) |
| groveling (128e-7) | doula (55e-7) | consuetude (5e-7) | meretricious | chatoyant (5e-7) |
| footloose (194e-7) | pyrrhic (76e-7) | kibitzer (10e-7) | mendacious | vulpine (23e-7) |
| meritocracy (337e-7) | satiate (102e-7) | ululate (11e-7) | loquacious | Weltschmerz (33e-7) |
| prowl (391e-7) | plod (164e-7) | banausic (17e-7) | jocular (329e-7) | vaunting (62e-7) |
| gibberish (404e-7) | janitorial (195e-7) | confabulate (23e-7) | puerile | nescience (119e-7) |
| circuitous (568e-7) | commode (300e-7) | hobbyhorse (39e-7) | intransigent (396e-7) | canard (158e-7) |
| lustrous (584e-7) | spendthrift (302e-7) | verisimilar (45e-7) | limpid | platitude (177e-7) |
| matrimony (672e-7) | leek (344e-7) | fructify (46e-7) | stilted | overwinter (204e-7) |
| stupendous (701e-7) | sleight (440e-7) | ruth (79e-7) | invidious (600e-7) | orogeny (207e-7) |
| woo (705e-7) | crass (583e-7) | lineament (80e-7) | irksome (662e-7) | malfeasance (302e-7) |
| conspire (713e-7) | florid (655e-7) | sinecure (139e-7) | mannered | coterminous (344e-7) |
| retaliate (878e-7) | rife 1(107e-7) | gravid (216e-7) | resentful | comportment (368e-7) |
| purportedly (1039e-7) | sluggish (1605e-7) | exterminate (537e-7) | obnoxious (1504e-7) | ostensible (1045e-7) |
| variegated (1061e-7) | exodus (2185e-7) | iconoclastic (552e-7) | contemptuous (1600e-7) | ameliorate (1172e-7) |
| hamper (1241e-7) | reconnaissance (2695e-7) | mumbling (662e-7) |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| slugfest (22e-7) | trothplight (3e-7) | ultracrepidarian (0.1e-7) | septenary 16 | daunt |
| skitter (62e-7) | sibylline (32e-7) | forgettery (1e-7) | gramarye 2 | obstruct |
| regurgitate (123e-7) | elate (35e-7) | holus-bolus (3e-7) | antinomy 301 | obstreperous |
| abstemious (160e-7) | expostulate (35e-7) | memoriter (4e-7) | mickle 17 | obdurate |
| expunge (213e-7) | mesmerize (68e-7) | luddite (6e-7) | incommunicado | obstinate |
| fusiform (302e-7) | distend (104e-7) | slumberous (27e-7) | dilapidated | occlude |
| rummage (304e-7) | coagulate (167e-7) | oleaginous (38e-7) | ramshackle | draggle |
| ardour (448e-7) | miniscule (175e-7) | true-blue (43e-7) | imbue | sulky |
| jubilant (602e-7) | flout (242e-7) | ramification (201e-7) | nonplussed | horrendous |
| acquiesce (901e-7) | foreshadow (321e-7) | winsome (210e-7) | peeve | insolence |
| chagrin (961e-7) | inane (363e-7) | cantankerous (265e-7) | befuddle | imperious |
| abomination (977e-7) | sui generis (506e-7) | imprimatur (338e-7) | dislodge | carnation |
| promiscuous (1124e-7) | hedonism (633e-7) | ironclad (451e-7) | prevaricate | mingle |
| haphazard (1422e-7) | crevice (662e-7) | yank (459e-7) | mayhem | preoccupy |
| elucidate (1639e-7) | encumbered (679e-7) | wiggle (514e-7) | recluse | engross |
| affluence (1657e-7) | inconsequential (1160e-7) | camaraderie (1029e-7) | beguile | moribund |
| sojourn (1739e-7) | insurmountable (1341e-7) | poky | chance upon | |
| squalid | afore | |||
| disparage | bustling |
| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| merrily | benevolence | brumal | featly | patrician |
| convene | attenuate | bedizen | stardust | objurgate |
| livid | arete | bunglesome | obsequiously | maladroit |
| alacrity | brachylogy | gadzookery | sepulcher | lenity |
| intertwine | pervious | solitudinarian | watershed | kismet |
| unsheathe | palmy | fantasticate | vulnerary | innuendo |
| acumen | logomachy | oblivescence | vatic | deracinate |
| ditto | literatim | decathect | upbraid | denouement |
| flit | gerontocracy | paralipsis | turncoat | clandestine |
| marshy | abridge | naissance | truckle | circumferential |
| exacerbate | daily-breader | hyetal | terse | cervine |
| exasperate | mishpocha | goldilock | sprout | berate |
| scold | apopemptic | earworm | silver-tongued | behindhand |
| vertigo | abubble | instauration | reverie | aerie |
| virago | valedictory | cerebrate | reproach | aberration |
| splinter | tidings | suspiration | pullulate | perk |
| sliver | tabernacle | tattersall | pestiferous | obscene |
| salver | pinguid | craic | peculate | throngs |
| malapropism | enrapture | shambles | aflame | valiant |
| 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tire out | moot | plead | ravel | pant |
| holistically | deject | growl | courteous | languid |
| trotting | avow | snappishly | dwindle | indignantly |
| splendour | assent | pretext | delirium | hookah |
| scurry | paramour | oyster | dashing | hiss |
| queer | illicit | succour | stoop | faint |
| crease | abode | credulous | rumbling | coax |
| borough | abyss | banter | shriek | chrysalis |
| pliable | premeditate | orderly | chimney | buttercup |
| embarked | bristling | peering | fluster | actuarial |
| entrapment | shrill | vivisection | barrowful | startle |
| inadmissible | frown | shatter | hoarsely | tedious |
| conferred | crossly | gasp | sternly | batler |
| cane | gravely | grok | wretched | shack |
| heckler | titter | manky | trample | subdue |
| inanimate | thimble | belch | thistle | sob |
| trudge | comfit | dianthus | serpent | wriggle |
| surfeit | bow | hideousness | piteous | nibble |
| 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| edict | livery | mournfully | forthright | crimson |
| impale | footman | treacle | encroach | mallet |
| frizzy | disembark | bawl | adage | furrow |
| mediocrity | crouch | unruffle | glimmer | eldritch |
| egalitarian | renounce | adduce | bespoke | espouse |
| austerity | solemn | shrine | inflagrante | fervour |
| rabies | uncivil | emeritus | paddle | smorgasbord |
| den | lullaby | tentative | spinster | reel |
| affectively | howl | stifle | candidly | derision |
| intermingle | grunt | preposterous | clogs | tread |
| wisp | fling | snazzy | backcomb | porpoise |
| disdain | cauldron | hedgerow | spanner | flapper |
| trot | litany | muppet | ratsbane | drawl |
| bough | impartial | wade | coiffure | caper |
| thatch | abruptly | deliberation | cognate | askance |
| meekly | swift | sordid | oblong | tureen |
| wearily | fleet | adjudicator | merrily | dainty |
| twinkling | fallibility | pristine | bequeath | bailout |
| 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| flurry | sanctuary | keep/stay schtum | paunchy | cognisant |
| diligent | encomium | heinous | tubby | mildewed |
| rustle | smithereens | abominable | rotund | debacle |
| vagaries | epitomise | resplendent | pudgy | entice |
| miscreant | newfangled | dauntless | chubby | cede |
| gimmick | virulent | plucky | chunky | divestiture |
| admonition | slovenly | intrepid | burly | floosie |
| mixed blessing | pundit/punditry | valorous | waft | addenda |
| imprudent | lampoon | listless | droll | sever |
| elation | spout | savoury | beget | remit |
| foil | jab | raze | befriend | exhilaration |
| flabbergasted | slant | enthralling | abet | disquieting |
| consecrated | crumble | spellbind | indolent | scawl |
| precariously | audacious | enchanting | runt | adulation |
| scribble | leeway | bewitching | exiguous | yearn |
| doodle | loitering | luxuriate in | amiss | pinnacle |
| scrawl | instigate | devour | assailant | devour |
| hazy | stallion | topple | belittle | admonition |
| raucous | verbiage | fallacious | mortified | cinder |
| vilify | posthaste | retract | transfix |
| 51 | 52 |
|---|---|
| trepidation | apanthropinization |
| shirk | gongoozler |
| scoundrel | kakistocracy |
| precipice | ergophobia |
| aberrant | snollygoster |
| torporific | abliguration |
| logrolling | wamblecropt |
| atemporal | grumbletonians |
| cruciverbalist | grufeling |
| rapprochement | apricate |
| nostrum | kickshaw |
| mealy-mouthed | slugabed |
| hearth | cockalorum |
| fortitude | lady-star |
| ebullient | |
| fudgel | |
| uhtceare | |
| dysania | |
| perendinate |
- ardent - uxorious
- morass - predicament
- retch vomit gag
- screech - shriek
- sever - shear
- sling - chuck
- sotto voce - ant stentorian
- staunch - second
- tether - be at the end of your tether
- unbecoming
- unrequited
- solace
- strife
- transfigure