Word of the Week

_{Updated September 2, 2025}

Difficult Vocabulary is a part of the LSAT. We’ve put together a collection of each “Word of the Week” segment from the Thinking LSAT as a jumping off point for your training as a gladiator of the English language.

1. Absolution
2. Abstemious
3. Adroit
4. Aegis
5. Agglomerations
6. Amanuensis
7. Ameliorate
8. Anomie
9. Antipathy
10. Archipelago
11. Arrogate
12. Ascribe
13. Askance
14. Avail
15. Avoid
16. Avuncular
17. Axiom
18. Blithely
19. Bulwark
20. Cantankerous
21. Compatible
22. Concomitant
23. Concupiscence
24. Consistent
25. Crestfallen
26. Cribbed
27. Daedalian
28. Defenestration
29. Delectation
30. Delimit
31. Deposition
32. Derangement
33. Desideratum
34. Dispute
35. Doddering
36. Effect (verb)
37. Elucidation
38. Emiseration
39. Engendered
40. Eschew
41. Escrow
42. Execrable
43. Extant
44. Extirpate
45. Extraneous
46. Few
47. Goosed
48. Haunts
49. Impolitic
50. Inaugurate
51. Inchoate
52. Inexorable
53. Inimical
54. Insouciance
55. Inveighed
56. Itinerant
57. Kibosh
58. Knave
59. Legerdemain
60. Little
61. Machination
62. Macroptorous
63. Mélange
64. Mercurial
65. Microptorous
66. Milquetoast
67. Miserly
68. Mollify
69. Nimrod
70. Normative
71. Obfuscate
72. Obloquy
73. Obscurantism
74. Offal
75. Opprobrium
76. Ostensible
77. Panopticon
78. Parsimonious
79. Penury
80. Pleonasm
81. Plumbed
82. Prescribe
83. Proscribe
84. Punctilio
85. Quotidian
86. Rapacious
87. Reject
88. Rigmarole
89. Salubrious
90. Scofflaw
91. Skirl
92. Sobriquet
93. Solipsism
94. Specious
95. Struthious
96. Stultifying
97. Sublime
98. Success
99. Succotash
100. Tantamount
101. Tariff
102. Tautology
103. Thrummed
104. Truism
105. Unique
106. Unless
107. Upbraid
108. Versimilitude
109. Veritas
110. Vicarious
111. Vituperate
112. Waylay
113. Zoonotic