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1100 words you need to know

🎟prognosticate------

🎟automaton----------

🎟matron---------------

🎟realm (n.)

🎟tinge (n.)(v.)(較淡的)色調,色彩(+of)

=> Her hair has a tinge of red.

=> His black hair was tinged with gray.

🎟voracious

🎟indiscriminate

🎟eminent

🎟steeped

🎟replete

🎟badger

🎟implore

🎟drudgery

🎟interminable

🎟perceive

🎟laconic

🎟throng

🎟intrepid

🎟accost

🎟reticent

🎟furtive

🎟felon

🎟plethora

🎟hapless

🎟irate

🎟pretext

🎟fabricate

🎟adroit

🎟gesticulate

🎟vigilant

🎟avid

🎟cajole

🎟rudimentary

🎟enhance

🎟nuance

🎟loathe

🎟reprimand

🎟lackluster

🎟caustic

🎟wrest

🎟infamous

🎟jostle

🎟dupe

🎟incipient

🎟inadvertent

🎟ominous

🎟tremulous

🎟repudiate

🎟cessation

🎟bristle

🎟euphemism

🎟mundane

🎟incongruous

🎟condolence

🎟stipulate

🎟alacrity

🎟disdain

🎟belligerent

🎟intimidate

🎟feint

🎟pugnacious

🎟brash

🎟scoff

🎟belittle

🎟tangible

🎟laceration

🎟castigate

🎟sordid

🎟octogenarian

🎟solace

🎟aspirant

🎟dregs

🎟frenzy

🎟scurrilous

🎟rampant

🎟inane

🎟ethics

🎟concur

🎟clandestine

🎟flagrant

🎟admonish

🎟duress

🎟culprit

🎟inexorable

🎟egregious

🎟distraught

🎟duplicity

🎟acrimonious

🎟paucity

🎟elicit

🎟pernicious

🎟construe

🎟impunity

🎟affluent

🎟feasible

🎟discern

🎟sally

🎟consternation

🎟precocious

🎟perfunctory

🎟chagrin

🎟perverse

🎟deride

🎟disparage

🎟laudable

🎟fiasco

🎟masticate

🎟eschew

🎟quell

🎟voluble

🎟confidant(s)

🎟obsolescence

🎟dubious

🎟implacable

🎟paroxysm

🎟reprehensible

🎟jurisdiction

🎟skirmish

🎟harass

🎟monolithic

🎟arbitrary

🎟indigent

🎟fray

🎟stymie

🎟effigy

🎟cognizant

🎟flout

🎟cognizant

🎟turbulent

🎟forthwith

🎟exacerbate

🎟revert

🎟oust

🎟emaciated

🎟surge

🎟tranquil

🎟sanctuary

🎟ascend

🎟malnutrition

🎟afflict

🎟besiege

🎟privation

🎟sinister

🎟ubiquitous

🎟remote

🎟thwart

🎟harbinger

🎟malignant

🎟excruciating

🎟respite

🎟reverberating

🎟fretful

🎟succumb

🎟impresario

🎟extortion

🎟adverse

🎟asset

🎟bigot

🎟blatant

🎟entourage

🎟virulent

🎟venom

🎟spew

🎟loath

🎟solicit

🎟astute

🎟advocate

🎟ineffectual

🎟scrutinize

🎟nefarious

🎟amicable

🎟vexatious

🎟malady

🎟inclement

🎟peruse

🎟premonition

🎟desist

🎟recoil

🎟pertinent

🎟mastiff

🎟obsess

🎟doleful

🎟wan

🎟histrionics

🎟elusive

🎟symptomatic

🎟interject

🎟inert

🎟salient

🎟imminent

🎟squeamish

🎟engrossed

🎟poignant

🎟inundate

🎟fruitless

🎟garbled

🎟sanguine

🎟phlegmatic

🎟corroborate

🎟comprehensive

🎟zealous

🎟coerce

🎟elapse

🎟meticulous

🎟domicile

🎟lax

🎟sporadic

🎟rash

🎟conjecture

🎟obviate

🎟lurid

🎟quip

🎟diatribe

🎟inhibition

🎟fortuitous

🎟incoherent

🎟ilk

🎟prestigious

🎟placard

🎟integral

🎟remuneration

🎟nominal

🎟expunge

🎟flamboyant

🎟anathema

🎟schism

🎟utopia

🎟timorous

🎟truncated

🎟jaunty

🎟fractious

🎟ostentatious

🎟importune

🎟incontrovertible

🎟surreptitious

🎟haven

🎟subjugate

🎟eventuate

🎟subterranean

🎟viable

🎟premise

🎟jeopardize

🎟incredulous

🎟permeate

🎟propitious

🎟surmise

🎟curtail

🎟repress

🎟cryptic

🎟inchoate

🎟aspire

🎟inveigh

🎟nettle

🎟overt

🎟relegate

🎟supine

🎟mammoth

🎟repulse

🎟havoc

🎟raze

🎟lethal

🎟scurry

🎟incisive

🎟precipitate

🎟stentorian

🎟valor

🎟sinecure

🎟extrinsic

🎟declaim

🎟fetter

🎟paragon

🎟nomadic

🎟asperity

🎟epithet

🎟controversial

🎟gregarious

🎟habitat

🎟cursory

🎟interloper

🎟prolific

🎟bulwark

🎟sedentary

🎟frugal

🎟antithesis

🎟altruistic

🎟embellish

🎟cache

🎟coterie

🎟cupidity

🎟virtuosity

🎟temerity

🎟amorous

🎟progeny

🎟saturate

🎟perpetrate

🎟consummate

🎟subterfuge

🎟concoct

🎟fallacious

🎟manifold

🎟assiduous

🎟impeccable

🎟fraught

🎟resourceful

🎟murky

🎟hoax

🎟labyrinth

🎟evaluate

🎟exult

🎟attest

🎟gullible

🎟deploy

🎟enigma

🎟abortive

🎟accommodate

🎟innate

🎟veneer

🎟urbane

🎟irrelevant

🎟deem

🎟inherent

🎟buff

🎟romp

🎟latent

🎟tortuous

🎟itinerant

🎟peregrination

🎟conjugal

🎟barometer

🎟megalomania

🎟profligate

🎟strife

🎟legion

🎟coup

🎟amnesty

🎟expatriate

🎟fiat

🎟mendacious

🎟parsimonious

🎟pecuniary

🎟dismantle

🎟sumptuous

🎟underwrite

🎟restrictive

🎟balk

🎟blunt

🎟nostalgia

🎟rife

🎟reviled

🎟derogatory

🎟indict

🎟nebulous

🎟pesky

🎟redolent

🎟repose

🎟omnivorous

🎟disparate

🎟abstemious

🎟extant

🎟vicissitudes

🎟edifice

🎟sultry

🎟trenchant

🎟puissant

🎟unabated

🎟maudlin

🎟levity

🎟lugubrious

🎟scion

🎟indoctrinate

🎟opulence

🎟obsequious

🎟fulsome

🎟lush

🎟destitution

🎟ponder

🎟supplication

🎟decadence

🎟penance

🎟ascetic

🎟desultory

🎟disciple

🎟metamorphosis

🎟bona fide

🎟salvation

🎟materialism

🎟nurture

🎟nirvana

🎟juxtapose

🎟plight

🎟covert

🎟cope

🎟incompatibility

🎟incapacitated

🎟fabricate

🎟connubial

🎟demur

🎟appellation

🎟escalation

🎟indifference

🎟potential

🎟cumulative

🎟recondite

🎟palliate

🎟delude

🎟prelude

🎟chimerical

🎟acknowledge

🎟heterogeneous

🎟gamut

🎟perspicacious

🎟analogous

🎟maladjusted

🎟mortality

🎟susceptible

🎟neurotic

🎟pedagogue

🎟enunciate

🎟inordinate

🎟irascible

🎟introspective

🎟perpetuate

🎟mandate

🎟compensatory

🎟neutralize

🎟catastrophic

🎟anthropologist

🎟inanimate

🎟fetish

🎟artifact

🎟taboo

🎟imprudent

🎟prohibition

🎟imperative

🎟faint

🎟contemptuous

🎟absurd

🎟bigot

🎟abhor

🎟vulnerable

🎟entreaty

🎟inviolable

🎟eruption

🎟puny

🎟debris

🎟dispersed

🎟obliterate

🎟deplorable

🎟initiate

🎟conflagration

🎟rue

🎟congenial

🎟hoard

🎟sage

🎟aegis

🎟detriment

🎟longevity

🎟imbibe

🎟senile

🎟doddering

🎟lethargic

🎟prevalent

🎟paramount

🎟remiss

🎟rebuke

🎟aversion

🎟evince

🎟vogue

🎟superficial

🎟jettison

🎟inevitable

🎟lucrative

🎟tussle

🎟intrinsic

🎟acute

🎟gist

🎟transient

🎟terse

🎟cogent

🎟pinnacle

🎟ardent

🎟culminate

🎟constrict

🎟prodigy

🎟bereft

🎟falter

🎟exultation

🎟vitriolic

🎟invective

🎟besmirch

🎟voluminous

🎟retrospect

🎟egotist

🎟humility

🎟pungent

🎟inveterate

🎟adamant

🎟vulnerable

🎟bedlam

🎟cacophony

🎟exploit

🎟propinquity

🎟disgruntled

🎟infallible

🎟panacea

🎟eradicate

🎟impede

🎟sedate

🎟equanimity

🎟compatible

🎟serenity

🎟revere

🎟irrational

🎟avarice

🎟insatiable

🎟nadir

🎟moribund

🎟lithe

🎟obese

🎟adherent

🎟bliss

🎟pathetic

🎟exhort

🎟apathy

🎟fracas

🎟inebriated

🎟adversary

🎟indolent

🎟gusto

🎟garrulous

🎟banal

🎟platitude

🎟pique

🎟dilettante

🎟atypical

🎟nondescript

🎟wane

🎟extinct

🎟idyllic

🎟galvanize

🎟encumbrance

🎟gaudy

🎟condesend

🎟candor

🎟mortify

🎟jocose

🎟malign

🎟omnipotent

🎟zenith

🎟fledgling

🎟peremptory

🎟precedent

🎟wheedle

🎟rustic

🎟jubilant

🎟decorum

🎟charlatan

🎟heresy

🎟prudent

🎟ostensible

🎟fervid

🎟spurious

🎟propagate

🎟anomaly

🎟innocuous

🎟surfeit

🎟milieu

🎟strident

🎟concomitant

🎟lassitude

🎟deleterious

🎟efficacy

🎟dissent

🎟ferment

🎟attenuated

🎟arbiter

🎟incumbent

🎟alleviate

🎟prodigious

🎟expedite

🎟celerity

🎟usurp

🎟paltry

🎟condone

🎟trivial

🎟bizarre

🎟menial

🎟venerable

🎟extraneous

🎟ambiguous

🎟succinct

🎟archaic

🎟emulate

🎟facetious

🎟rabid

🎟salubrious

🎟complacent

🎟somber

🎟debilitate

🎟impetuous

🎟occult

🎟discreet

🎟foment

🎟glean

🎟quarry

🎟slovenly

🎟abjure

🎟reproach

🎟penitent

🎟evanescent

🎟tantamount

🎟propensity

🎟wary

🎟allay

🎟deter

🎟connoisseur

🎟vigil

🎟cumbersome

🎟interrogate

🎟divulge

🎟unmitigated

🎟commodious

🎟antiquated

🎟disheveled

🎟tenacious

🎟façade

🎟asinine

🎟grimace

🎟calumny

🎟pittance

🎟au courant

🎟fastidious

🎟noisome

🎟unkempt

🎟parable

🎟whimsical

🎟lampoon

🎟countenance

🎟sanctimonious

🎟equanimity

🎟effrontery

🎟nonentity

🎟flabbergasted

🎟debacle

🎟vivacious

🎟gaunt

🎟mien

🎟hirsute

🎟refute

🎟pensive

🎟whet

🎟stupor

🎟wince

🎟genre

🎟candid

🎟unsavory

🎟degrade

🎟venial

🎟epitome

🎟dexterity

🎟grotesque

🎟compassion

🎟repugnant

🎟acme

🎟copious

🎟vehemently

🎟depict

🎟native

🎟perfidious

🎟covert

🎟ingratiate

🎟penury

🎟ignominious

🎟confront

🎟antipathy

🎟servile

🎟volition

🎟sojourn

🎟austere

🎟felicitous

🎟halcyon

🎟tenable

🎟superfluous

🎟rationalize

🎟nascent

🎟iconoclast

🎟erudite

🎟germane

🎟vertigo

🎟conducive

🎟glib

🎟homogenous

🎟malleable

🎟legerdemain

🎟stagnant

🎟fatal

🎟passé

🎟procrastinate

🎟facet

🎟foist

🎟stigmatize

🎟capitulate

🎟audacity

🎟tantalize

🎟retort

🎟reticent

🎟tacit

🎟chicanery

🎟docile

🎟saga

🎟belated

🎟decrepit

🎟imperturbable

🎟vacillate

🎟staunch

🎟opprobrium

🎟Machiavellian

🎟unconscionable

🎟pandemonium

🎟flay

🎟demeanor

🎟delineation

🎟vindicate

🎟heinous

🎟turpitude

🎟infraction

🎟callous

🎟redress

🎟vituperation

🎟rhetoric

🎟clique

🎟extol

🎟mentor

🎟facile

🎟cant

🎟umbrage

🎟magnanimous

🎟vilify

🎟elucidate

🎟vapid

🎟unwieldy

🎟proximity

🎟lassitude

🎟vitiate

🎟augment

🎟fatuous

🎟contort

🎟repertoire

🎟imperceptible

🎟curry

🎟pall

🎟succulent

🎟satiety

🎟intrinsic

🎟potpourri

🎟sanction

🎟denote

🎟allude

🎟insidious

🎟propriety

🎟advent

🎟impious

🎟proffer

🎟spate

🎟shibboleth

🎟bogus

🎟substantiate

🎟nutritive

🎟raucous

🎟quandary

🎟callous

🎟expedient

🎟negligible

🎟blasé

🎟ennui

🎟comely

🎟frenetic

🎟artifice

🎟diversity

🎟qualm

🎟expurgate

🎟begrudge

🎟artless

🎟gratuity

🎟manifest

🎟delve

🎟capricious

🎟requisite

🎟replenish

🎟roster

🎟stunted

🎟atrophy

🎟maim

🎟ameliorate

🎟cynic

🎟unctuous

🎟benevolent

🎟subservient

🎟iniquity

🎟largess

🎟criterion

🎟repent

🎟mollify

🎟mercenary

🎟pariah

🎟aloof

🎟pragmatic

🎟vestige

🎟guise

🎟nullify

🎟deluge

🎟futility

🎟carnage

🎟libel

🎟defamatory

🎟plaintiff

🎟canard

🎟deprecate

🎟reputed

🎟frail

🎟potent

🎟excoriate

🎟devout

🎟diminutive

🎟profuse

🎟dulcet

🎟impromptu

🎟malevolent

🎟wistful

🎟raiment

🎟brigand

🎟corpulent

🎟rail

🎟raconteur

🎟sullen

🎟rift

🎟emissary

🎟ruminate

🎟taut

🎟livid

🎟martinet

🎟yen

🎟bagatelle

🎟callow

🎟appalled

🎟penchant

🎟decapitate

🎟termagent

🎟ascertain

🎟dormant

🎟burgeoned

🎟potentate

🎟disseminate

🎟derived

🎟prerogative

🎟nepotism

🎟dearth

🎟internecine

🎟tyro

🎟sophistry

🎟factitious

🎟encomium

🎟obloquy

🎟hyperbole

🎟munificent

🎟prevarication

🎟charisma

🎟genocide

🎟impregnable

🎟patriarch

🎟neophyte

🎟extenuating

🎟forebodings

🎟emanating

🎟miscreant

🎟protocol

🎟circuitous

🎟knell

🎟macabre

🎟ramifications

🎟rapacious

🎟insurgent

🎟glut

🎟risible

🎟dilatory

🎟specious

🎟denouement

🎟dolorous

🎟enervated

🎟suffrage

🎟cabal

🎟odious

🎟prescient

🎟verbatim

🎟reverie

🎟thespain

🎟despot

🎟pathological

🎟articulate

🎟grandeur

🎟polemic

🎟impasse

🎟regimen

🎟denigrated

🎟guile

🎟mortal

🎟inflicted

🎪to eat humble pie

🎪a pig in a poke

🎪a flash in the pan

🎪to pour oil on troubled waters

🎪the sword of Damocles

🎪pyrrhic victory

🎪a wet blanket

🎪to beard the lion in his den

🎪crocodile tears

🎪to carry the day

🎪Skid Row

🎪to go up in smoke

🎪to throw down the gauntlet

🎪feeling no pain

🎪Hobson's choice

🎪to rule the roost

🎪stock in trade

🎪to take down

🎪to pass the buck

🎪to lionize a person

🎪I'm from Missouri

🎪red- letter day

🎪to let sleeping dogs lie

🎪thumb's down

🎪cause célèbre

🎪one swallow does not make a summer

🎪a bitter pill to swallow

🎪an ax to grind

🎪sour grapes

🎪to swap horses

🎪to cool one's heels

🎪a red herring

🎪to spill the beans

🎪to keep a stiff upper lip

🎪to have cold feet

🎪to look a gift horse in the mouth

🎪to pay the piper

🎪on the carpet

🎪to show one’s hand

🎪to tilt at windmills

🎪to feather one’s nest

🎪fair- weather friends

🎪to sow one’s wild oats

🎪windfall

🎪to wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve

🎪to wash dirty linen in public

🎪to save face

🎪Indian summer

🎪to take the bull by the horns

🎪the lion’s share

🎪out of the frying pen into the fire

🎪to keep the pot boiling

🎪to bury the hatchet

🎪philadelphia lawyer

🎪to gild the lily

🎪to steal one’s thunder

🎪woolgathering

🎪to whitewash

🎪to break the ice

🎪the grapevine

🎪in the bee line

🎪the world, the flesh, and the devil

🎪to make brick without straw

🎪to have the upper hand

🎪to draw in one’s horns

🎪to put the chart before the horse

🎪to turn the tables

🎪a chip off the old block

🎪under the wire

🎪to be at large

🎪to go against the grain

🎪to wink at

🎪to play possum

🎪it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good

🎪to know the ropes

🎪behind the eight ball

🎪left holding the bag

🎪a lick and a promise

🎪tongue in cheek

🎪to take the wind out of one’s sails

🎪two strings to bow

🎪on tenter hooks

🎪the fat is in the fire

🎪like Caesar’s wife

🎪plea bargain

🎪in apple pie order

🎪apple polishing

🎪the Draconian Code

🎪the distaff side

🎪on the qui vive

🎪to get one’s bake up

🎪to bring home the bacon

🎪to get down off a high horse

🎪the first water

🎪dyed- in- the- wool

🎪blue chip

🎪as broad as it is long

🎪blow hot and cold

🎪in the doldrums

🎪to spit hairs

🎪to strike while iron is hot

🎪once in a blue moon

🎪sleep on it

🎪loaded for bear

🎪to bring down the house

🎪to pull one’s weight

🎪a white elephant

🎪lock, stock, and barrel

🎪a feather in one’s cap

🎪out on a limb

🎪on the spur of the moment

🎪a fly in the ointment

🎪to take French leave

🎪in the arms of Morpheus

🎪forty winks

🎪from pillar to post

🎪in the lap of the gods

🎪cold shoulder

🎪without rhyme or reason

🎪swan song

🎪to get the sack

🎪ivory tower

🎪to feather one’s nest

🎪the writing on the wall

🎪on the bandwagon

🎪to hit the nail on the head

🎪on the dot

🎪to take under one’s wing

🎪out of one’s depth

🎪to take a leaf out of someone’s book

🎪brass tacks

🎪hook, line, and sinker

🎪lily- livers

🎪to pull up stakes

🎪to raise Cain

🎪to leave no stone unturned

🎪tongue in one’s cheek

🎪keep a stiff upper lip

🎪to throw the book at someone

🎪terra firma

🎪in seventh heaven

🎪to tighten one’s belt

🎪off the beaten track

🎪a square peg in a round hole

🎪to upset the apple cart

🎪by hook or by crook

🎪to get up on the wrong side of the bed

🎪castles in the air

🎪to maintain the status quo

🎪a sacred cow

🎪through thick and thin

🎪to take by storm

🎪to be in fine fettle

🎪to live in fool’s paradise

🎪the sum and substance

🎪on pins and needles

🎪to have at one’s fingertips

🎪a pretty kettle of fish

🎪the acid test

🎪a blind alley

🎪to twist around one’s finger

🎪to do one’s heart good

🎪worth one’s weight in gold

🎪to make the best of a bad bargain

🎪to make ends meet

🎪to lay one’s cards on the table

🎪a bolt from the blue

🎪to tell tales out of school

🎪to build upon sand

🎪a pretty kettle of fish

🎪to toe the mark

🎪to be under a cloud

🎪to flog a dead horse

🎪the die is cast

🎪a cat’s paw

🎪coup de grâce

🎪straight from the shoulder

🎪to rub a person the wrong way

🎪to draw in one’s horns

🎪to throw cold water

🎪a dry run

🎪to throw someone a curve

🎪to cross the Rubicon

🎪to brave the elements

🎪to hill the goose that laid the golden egg

🎪to carry coals to Newcastle

🎪an axe to grind

🎪to throw one’s hat in the ring


Lang's motto.

#1 

LOVE yourself

#2

TRUST yourself

#3

DESIGN yourself

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