These words routinely appear in tests that assess a student’s verbal ability. Learn these words by heart.<\/p>\n
Triennial<\/strong>: recurring every three years<\/p>\n Plutocracy:<\/strong> a society ruled by a small minority of the wealthiest citizens<\/p>\n Plutocratic<\/strong>: In a plutocratic society the rich hold the power.<\/p>\n Stoicism<\/strong>: indifference to pain and pleasure<\/p>\n Fanatic<\/strong>: a person filled with excessive zeal for a political or religious cause<\/p>\n Fratricide<\/strong>: the killing of one’s brother or sister<\/p>\n Deciduous<\/strong>: trees whose leaves fall every autumn<\/p>\n Dolores<\/strong>: someone who is generally sorrowful<\/p>\n Coincidence<\/strong>: occurring together at the same time<\/p>\n Occidental<\/strong>: relating to western countries<\/p>\n Oriental<\/strong>: relating to eastern countries<\/p>\n Consecutive<\/strong>: following in proper order<\/p>\n Pandemonium<\/strong>: any wild and noisy disorder<\/p>\n Panorama<\/strong>: a view all around<\/p>\n Haemophilia<\/strong>: a condition in which the blood clots too slowly<\/p>\n Haemorrhage<\/strong>: excessive blood flow<\/p>\n Haematology<\/strong>: the science of blood and its diseases<\/p>\n Bilateral<\/strong>: a bilateral decision is one made by the two sides involved<\/p>\n Unilateral<\/strong>: a unilateral decision is made by one person without consulting the others<\/p>\n Multilingual<\/strong>: speaking many languages<\/p>\n Paedophile<\/strong>: a person who sexually molests young children<\/p>\n Quinquagenarian<\/strong>: a person in his or her fifties<\/p>\n Sexagenarian<\/strong>: a person in his or her sixties<\/p>\n Septuagenarian<\/strong>: a person in his or her seventies<\/p>\n Octogenarian:<\/strong> a person in his or her eighties<\/p>\n Nonagenarian<\/strong>: a person in his or her nineties<\/p>\n Centenarian:<\/strong> a person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years<\/p>\n Noxious<\/strong>: harmful<\/p>\n Imbibe:<\/strong> drink in<\/p>\n Equestrian:<\/strong> a horseman<\/p>\n Equestrienne:<\/strong> a horsewoman<\/p>\n Equine:<\/strong> horse-like<\/p>\n Subsequent:<\/strong> following<\/p>\n Decadent:<\/strong> morally deteriorating<\/p>\n Decadence:<\/strong> spiritual decay<\/p>\n Condolence:<\/strong> expression of sympathy<\/p>\n Impecunious:<\/strong> without funds; short of money<\/p>\n Bibulous:<\/strong> addicted to alcohol; likely to drink past the point of sobriety<\/p>\n Obsequious:<\/strong> overly polite<\/p>\n Doleful:<\/strong> exaggerated sadness or dreariness<\/p>\n Cadaverous:<\/strong> someone who looks like a corpse<\/p>\n Oscillate:<\/strong> to swing back and forth<\/p>\n Ambivalent:<\/strong> feeling both ways at the same time<\/p>\n Dissimulate:<\/strong> to conceal real feelings<\/p>\n Dissemble:<\/strong> to pretend ignorance in spite of knowing the facts<\/p>\n Synergy:<\/strong> the process by which two or more substances produce a greater effect than the sum of the individual effects<\/p>\n Enervation:<\/strong> utter exhaustion; mental, emotional, and physical drain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These words routinely appear in tests that assess a student’s verbal ability. Learn these words by heart. Triennial: recurring every three years Plutocracy: a society ruled by a small minority of the wealthiest citizens...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1116,543,1114,1115],"class_list":["post-71982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-common-one-word-substitutes","tag-one-word-substitutes","tag-one-words","tag-one-words-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71983,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71982\/revisions\/71983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}