100 Difficult English Words and Their Meanings
Here are 100 difficult English words with their meanings to help you improve your vocabulary:
1-10
- Perspicacious (adjective): Having a keen understanding and insight
- Ennui (noun): A feeling of listlessness and boredom
- Fastidious (adjective): Meticulous and demanding in one's standards
- Inscrutable (adjective): Difficult to understand or interpret
- Lassitude (noun): A feeling of weariness or lack of energy
- Mellifluous (adjective): Having a smooth and sweet sound
- Nebulous (adjective): Unclear or vague in meaning or form
- Obfuscate (verb): To make something unclear or difficult to understand
- Perfidious (adjective): Disloyal or treacherous
- Quixotic (adjective): Extravagantly chivalrous or romantic in a way that is considered unrealistic or impractical
11-20
- Rigmarole (noun): A complicated or bureaucratic procedure
- Sagacious (adjective): Having keen discernment and good judgment
- Tintinnabulation (noun): A ringing or tinkling sound, especially of a bell
- Uxoricide (noun): The act of murdering one's wife
- Vacillate (verb): To hesitate or be indecisive
- Wamble (verb): To walk or move unsteadily
- Xenophobia (noun): A fear or dislike of people from other countries
- Yonder (adverb): At a distance, either physically or metaphorically
- Zephyr (noun): A gentle, mild breeze
- Callipygian (adjective): Having well-shaped buttocks
21-30
- Debacle (noun): A complete failure or collapse
- Ephemeral (adjective): Lasting for a very short time
- Flânerie (noun): The act of strolling or sauntering
- Garrulous (adjective): Talkative or loquacious
- Heterogeneous (adjective): Diverse or varied in kind or character
- Insouciant (adjective): Carefree or nonchalant
- Jocularity (noun): Good humor or jesting
- Kinesiology (noun): The study of the movement of the body
- Lachrymose (adjective): Given to or characterized by weeping
- Malediction (noun): A curse or evil invocation
31-40
- Nefarious (adjective): Wicked or villainous
- Opheliac (adjective): Relating to or resembling the character of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Pellucid (adjective): Transparent or clear
- Quandary (noun): A state of uncertainty or indecision
- Reclusive (adjective): Preferring to be alone or avoiding social contact
- Sesquipedalian (adjective): Using long words
- Tintype (noun): A photographic image made on a thin sheet of metal
- Ubiquitous (adjective): Present or found everywhere
- Velleity (noun): A mild or slight desire
- Wistful (adjective): Feeling a sense of longing or melancholy
41-50
- Xanthosis (noun): A yellowish discoloration of the skin
- Yare (adjective): Quick or agile
- Zymurgy (noun): The study of fermentation in brewing
- Cacophony (noun): A harsh, discordant sound
- Defenestration (noun): The act of throwing someone or something out of a window
- Echolocation (noun): The ability of some animals to locate objects by emitting high-frequency sounds
- Finesse (noun): Delicacy and subtlety of performance or skill
- Gobemouche (noun): A person who is easily deceived or manipulated
- Heliotropism (noun): The phenomenon of plants turning their leaves towards the sun
- Ichnite (noun): A fossilized footprint
