TOEFL Vocabulary Page 14

326. INSIDIOUS: Working secretly or slyly - that insidious disease, cancer.

Synonyms: wily, crafty, furtive, treacherous, artful, guileful perfidious

327. INSTIGATE: To stir tip - instigated discontent among the soldiers.

Synonyms: foment, incite

328. INTEGRITY: Honesty, moral soundness - a man of proved integrity.

Synonyms: probity, uprightness, incorruptibility

329. INVEIGH (noun-. INVECTIVE): To speak angrily or bitterly-inveighed against economic discrimination.

Synonyms: rail, denounce, fulminate, vituperate

330. IRASCIBLE: Easily angered - Even petty things made Peter irascible.

Synonyms: choleric, petulant, testy, peevish, splenetic, touchy

Antonyms: placid, equable

331. IRE: Anger -aroused his ire.

Synonyms: resentment; (adj.) irate, incensed

332. IRKSOME: Tedious, monotonous - an irksome chore that no one liked.

333. ITINERANT: Traveling about; wandering - an itinerant salesman.

Synonym: nomadic

334. JARGON: Confused, unintelligible, meaningless talk; special vocabulary used only by members of a group or trade - Variety, a newspaper written in theatrical jargon.

Synonyms: gibberish, argot, cant

335. JAUNTY: Having an air of easy carelessness or liveliness - walked with a jaunty step.

Synonyms: sprightly, airy, gay, nonchalant, debonair

Antonyms: somber, staid

336. JEOPARDY: Danger - His life was in jeopardy.

Synonyms: hazard, peril

337. JETTISON: To throw overboard (as cargo); to throw off (as a burden or something in the way )- jettisoned their old candidate as a political liability.

338. JUDICIOUS: Wise; using or exhibiting good judgment - a well-chosen plan, termed judicious by all.

Synonyms:discreet, politic, discerning

339. KALEIDOSCOPIC: Constantly changing or varying in pattern or scenes - kaleidoscopic views of New York.

340. KEN: Range of sight or understanding - something beyond our ken.

Synonym: insight

341. LABYRINTH (adj.: LABYRINTHINE): A structure or intricate passage out of which it is difficult to find one's way (also applied to spiritual and intellectual complexities) - confused by a labyrinth of intellectual discussions.

Synonym:maze

342. LACHRYMOSE: Causing or given to shedding tears - a lachrymose tragedy.

343. LACONIC: Saying much in few words - a laconic reply that spoke volumes.

Synonyms:concise, pithy, terse, succinct, taciturn, reticent

Antonyms:verbose, prolix, redundant, diffuse, tautological, turgid, garrulous, voluble

344. LARCENY: Theft - indicted for grand larceny.

345. LATENT: Hidden; present but not fully developed - latent talent that time will reveal.

Synonyms:dormant, quiescent, covert, potential

Antonyms:apparent, patent

346. LAVISH:

(1) Profuse or generous - lavish in praise.

Synonyms: ample, superabundant

(2) Given to extravagance - a lavish spender.

Synonyms: prodigal, munificent, magnanimous.

Antonyms: parsimonious, niggardly, frugal, penurious

347. LETHAL: Deadly - a lethal weapon.

Synonyms: mortal, fatal

348. LONGEVITY: Prolonged duration of life - a country remarkable for the longevity of its inhabitants.

349. LOW: To bellow softly like cattle - the lowing herd in the meadow.

Synonym: moo

350. LUCID: Clear; transparent; easily understood - a lucid explanation of a difficult text.

Synonyms: pellucid, perspicuous, intelligible, limpid, luminous, translucent

Antonyms: abstruse, obscure