Word of the Week

_{Updated August 18, 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. Inimical
53. Insouciance
54. Inveighed
55. Itinerant
56. Kibosh
57. Knave
58. Legerdemain
59. Little
60. Machination
61. Macroptorous
62. Mélange
63. Mercurial
64. Microptorous
65. Milquetoast
66. Miserly
67. Mollify
68. Nimrod
69. Normative
70. Obfuscate
71. Obloquy
72. Obscurantism
73. Offal
74. Opprobrium
75. Ostensible
76. Panopticon
77. Parsimonious
78. Penury
79. Pleonasm
80. Plumbed
81. Prescribe
82. Proscribe
83. Punctilio
84. Quotidian
85. Rapacious
86. Reject
87. Rigmarole
88. Salubrious
89. Scofflaw
90. Skirl
91. Sobriquet
92. Solipsism
93. Specious
94. Struthious
95. Stultifying
96. Sublime
97. Success
98. Succotash
99. Tantamount
100. Tariff
101. Tautology
102. Thrummed
103. Unique
104. Unless
105. Upbraid
106. Versimilitude
107. Veritas
108. Vicarious
109. Vituperate
110. Waylay
111. Zoonotic