Word of the Week
Demon Team
May 18, 2025Updated September 22, 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.
- Absolution
- Abstemious
- Adroit
- Aegis
- Agglomerations
- Amanuensis
- Ameliorate
- Anomie
- Antipathy
- Archipelago
- Arrogate
- Ascribe
- Askance
- Avail
- Avoid
- Avuncular
- Axiom
- Blithely
- Bulwark
- Cantankerous
- Compatible
- Concomitant
- Concupiscence
- Consistent
- Crestfallen
- Cribbed
- Daedalian
- Defenestration
- Delectation
- Delimit
- Deposition
- Derangement
- Desideratum
- Dispute
- Doddering
- Effect (verb)
- Elucidation
- Emiseration
- Engendered
- Eschew
- Escrow
- Execrable
- Extant
- Extirpate
- Extraneous
- Few
- Goosed
- Haunts
- Impolitic
- Inaugurate
- Inchoate
- Inexorable
- Inimical
- Insouciance
- Inveighed
- Itinerant
- Kibosh
- Knave
- Lacunae
- Legerdemain
- Little
- Machination
- Macroptorous
- Mélange
- Mercurial
- Microptorous
- Milquetoast
- Miserly
- Mollify
- Nimrod
- Normative
- Obfuscate
- Obloquy
- Obscurantism
- Offal
- Opprobrium
- Ostensible
- Panopticon
- Parsimonious
- Penury
- Pleonasm
- Plumbed
- Prescribe
- Proscribe
- Punctilio
- Quotidian
- Rapacious
- Reject
- Rigmarole
- Salient
- Salubrious
- Scofflaw
- Skirl
- Sobriquet
- Solipsism
- Specious
- Struthious
- Stultifying
- Sublime
- Success
- Succotash
- Tantamount
- Tariff
- Tautology
- Thrummed
- Truism
- Unique
- Unless
- Upbraid
- Versimilitude
- Veritas
- Vicarious
- Vituperate
- Waylay
- Zoonotic