Word Masters Challenge One Vocabulary List
1) chaff – verb
Def – to mock, tease, or jest in a good-natured way; banter
Noun – Def – good-natured ridicule or teasing
Noun – husks of wheat separated when threshing
WiF – chaffingly – adv. “to separate the wheat from the chaff”
2) retract – verb
Def 1 - To make an official statement saying something you said is not true
Def 2 – to draw back within itself or oneself; fold up
WiF – retractable – adj. Able to be pulled back; retraction – noun;
retractive - adj
3) feckless – adj.
Def – not determined, effective, or successful
Def – ineffective, incompetent, futile, having no sense of responsibility,
indifferent, unthinking, or lazy
WiF – fecklessly – adv. Feck – noun effect
4) voracity – POS – noun
Def - The condition of craving or devouring food in great quantity
Def – the condition or quality of being voracious
WiF – voracious – adj to be extremely hungry or eager
5) shroud – noun
Def – something that conceals, protects, screens, veils, or shelters
Verb – to conceal
WiF – shroudless - adj
6) virulent – adj.
Def – actively poisonous, intensely noxious, deadly or fatal
WiF – virulently – adv., virus - noun
7) candor – noun
Def – the state or quality of being frank or open; sincere in speech or
expression; freedom from bias, fairness, and impartiality
WiF – candid – adj. frank, outspoken, open, sincere
8) retaliate – verb
Def – to return like for like (to get back for something negative that was done)
Syn – reciprocate, return
WiF – retaliation - noun
9) bilious – adj.
Def – characterized by an excess secretion of bile; relating to bile
Adj. – peevish, irritable, cranky, or grumpy
WiF – biliously – adv, biliousness - noun
10) curmudgeon – noun
Def – an old, rusty, cranky old man
Syn – complainer, crab, cross-patch
11) parry – verb
Def – to ward off, to turn aside, to dodge
Noun – an act or instance of parrying, especially in fencing (a defensive move)
Syn – block, repel, defend
12) credulous – adj.
Def – willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or
adequate evidence; gullible
WiF – credulity – noun, credulously – adv., credulousness – noun
Antonym – incredulous – adj.
13) malice – noun
Def – 1) A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill-will or
spite; 2) the intent, without just cause or reason, to commit a wrongful act
that will result in harm to another
WiF – malicious – adj. - deliberately harmful or spiteful, maliciousness - noun
14) eradicate – verb
Def – to completely destroy something; to pull up by the roots
WIF – eradicable – adj, eradication – noun, eradicator - noun
15) slipshod – adj.
Def – careless, untidy, or slovenly; seedy, shabby, down at heel; wearing
slippers or loose shoes, especially ones worn at the heel
WiF – shoddy - adj
16) dross – noun
Def – waste that forms on the surface on molten metal; waste or refuse
Syn – scab, scum, trash, waste, recrement
Recrement – a bodily secretion that is reabsorbed into the blood
17) expunge – verb
Def – to strike or blot out, erase, obliterate
WiF – expunger – n, unexpunged - adj
18) covert – noun
Def – a shelter or hiding place
Adj – Def – secret or hidden
WiF – covertly – adv, covertness - n
19) pith – noun
Def – the important or essential part, the spongy center tissue in trees
Verb – Def – to remove the pith from trees
WiF – pithy – adj – (concise, forcefully expressive)
20) divulge – verb
Def – to give someone information, especially about something that’s secret
Def – to make known (private or sensitive information)
WiF – divulgence – noun, divulgation – noun
21) potent – adj.
Def – effective, mighty, powerful
Def – powerful, mighty, cogent; persuasive, producing a powerful physical or
chemical effect; having or exercising great power or influence
WiF – potentate – noun, potential – noun, adj – possessing latent ability that
may or may not be developed
Antonym – impotent – adj.
22) crux – noun
Def – basic, central, or critical point or feature; a puzzling or apparently
unsolvable problem; a fancy word for cross
WiF – crucify – verb to kill, crucial – adj. extremely significant or important,
cruciverbalist – noun someone who loves crossword puzzles
23) rescind – verb
Def – to officially end a law, agreement, or decision
Def – to abrogate, annul, revoke, or repeal; to invalidate by a later action or a
higher authority
WiF – rescinder – noun, rescindment – noun, rescindable – adj
Syn – nullify, retract, withdraw, countermand, repeal, veto
24) improbable – adj.
Def – not likely to happen or be true
WiF – improbability – noun – something that is unlikely to happen
Antonym – probable - adj
25) vengeance – noun
Def – something violent or harmful you do to someone in order to punish him
or her for hurting you
Def – infliction of injury, harm, or humiliation on a person by another who has
been harmed by that person
WiF – venge – root to avenge, avenge – verb, revenge - noun