List of 50 Difficult English Words with Meanings Some new words in the English dictionary can be very tricky while speaking or writing. These words may have a different speaking technique and different writing style and are sometimes very difficult to learn and remember. It is thus impossible for students to learn such words at times. These words many times appear in the competitive exams as well. Difficult Words with Meaning and Sentence There are difficult words with meaning and sentence which are as follows – 1. Acumen – mental keenness (Her team’s political acumen is clearly beyond mine). 2. Antipathy – dislike (Jerry’s extreme antipathy for disputes keeps him from getting into arguments with his temperamental wife.) 3. Abjure – abandon forever (He will abjure his allegiance to the king.) 4. Boon – blessings (Parents give a boon to their children.) 5. Brusque – unfriendly (I made a brusque movement.) 6. Burnish – polish (I burnish the brass fixture until they reflect the lamplight.) 7. Cajole – influence (Diane tried to cajole her father into letting her drive the family car.) 8. Defile – pollute (The hoodlums defile the church with their scurrilous writing.) 9. Deleterious – injurious (Smoking is deleterious to your health.) 10. Egregious – notorious (She is an egregious liar.) Here is the list of 50 Difficult new English Words with Meanings: 1. Abnegation -Renouncing a belief or doctrine 2. Aggrandize-enhance power, wealth or status 3. Alacrity -eagerness 4. Anachronistic -misplaced chronologically 5. Archetypal -quintessential of a certain kind 6. Ascetic -one who practices self-denial as part of spiritual discipline 7. Beguile -influence someone in a deceptive way 8. Blandishment -intentional flattery for persuasion 9. Cajole -persuade by flattery or coaxing 10. Callous -disregard for others 11. Camaraderie -a sense of solidarity arising out of familiarity and sociability 12. Circumlocution -expressing someone in an indirect way 13. Clamor -proclaim something noisily 14. Cognizant -awareness or realization 15. Construe -interpret or assign meaning 16. Convivial -enjoyable atmosphere or jovial company 17. Demagogue -a political leader who uses rhetoric to appeal to prejudices and desires of ordinary citizens 18. Denigrate -belittle someone 19. Didactic -instructive with a moral intent 20. Disparate -of a distinct kind 21. Eclectic -deriving the best ideas and styles from a diverse range of sources 22. Egregious -reprehensible or outrageously bad 23. Embezzlement -misappropriation of funds. 24. Enervate -lacking in vitality or mentally/ morally drained. 25. Ephemeral– lasting for a short duration 26. Equanimity -maintaining composure in stressful situations 27. Fatuous -devoid of intelligence 28. Gratuitous -uncalled for or unwarranted 29. Iconoclast -someone who criticizes or attacks cherished ideas and beliefs 30. Idiosyncratic -something peculiar to an individual 31. Incumbent -something that is morally binding 32. Inveterate -habitual 33. Libertarian -someone who cherishes ideas of free will 34. Licentious -someone who is promiscuous 35. Mendacious -deceitful 36. Multifarious -multifaceted or diverse 37. Obdurate -being stubborn and refusing to change one’s opinion 38. Ostracism -excluding a person or certain section from society by majority consent 39. Pejorative -showing disapproval 40. Pertinacious -someone who is stubbornly unyielding 41. Phlegmatic -expressing little or no emotion 42. Promulgate-to broadcast or announce 43. Quotidian -something that is of daily occurrence 44. Recalcitrant -resistant to authority 45. Sanctimonious -the pretense of being morally pious to exhibit moral superiority 46. Solipsism -the philosophical theory that only the self-existence is known and all that exists 47. Travesty -distorting facts or imitation 48. Ubiquitous -omnipresent or existing everywhere 49. Vicissitude – an unwelcome or unpleasant change in circumstances or fortune 50. Vociferous -something or someone who is offensively/ conspicuously loud.
