Difficult words in English

 No matter how long you have been learning the English language, still while reading a book, magazine, or while watching a movie you do come across words that might startle you and call for your prolonged look. In fact, the sole reason behind it is the vastness of the language. So, don’t you wonder how to unscramble this mystery when at the same time, there are uncountable words to know about in this language? There exist countless words which we make use of, some words more often than others.

So, this article will help you to know a little about this plethora of words. We will talk about some of the hardest English words and subsequently about words that are difficult to pronounce.

50 Difficult English Words and their Meanings

Words Beginning from A

• Ascetic – avoiding physical pleasures because of religious reasons
• Abnegation – an action made to reject someone or something
• Archetypal – someone having all the qualities of a particular type of lifestyle
• Aggrandize – adding to the power or wealth of an individual or country
• Anachronistic – placing someone or something chronologically wrong
• Alacrity – having great willingness and eagerness for something

Words Beginning from B

• Beguile – charm in a deceptive way
• Blandishment – statement for gently pleasuring someone

Words Beginning from C

• Convivial – friendly character
• Cajole – persuading someone with your nice behaviour
• Construe – understanding something
• Callous – not caring about others
• Camaraderie – the mutual feeling of trust
• Circumlocution – expressing something in a long way
• Clamour – demanding something
• Cognizant – being aware

Words Beginning from D

• Demagogue – a political leader will manipulate skills
• Denigrate – unfair criticism
• Didactic – teaching moral lesson
• Disparate – people or things with different qualities together

Words Beginning from E

• Eclectic – generating ideas
• Egregious – bad and shocking in a huge way
• Embezzlement – to steal
• Enervate – feeling out of energy
• Ephemeral – lasting for a short period
• Equanimity – a very calm state of mind

Words Beginning from F

• Fatuous – something pointless

Words Beginning from G

• Gratuitous – anything that has some harmful effect

Words Beginning from I

• Iconoclast – any statue
• Idiosyncratic – something unusual
• Incumbent – a person with an official position
• Inveterate – having a habit for a long time

Words Beginning from L

• Libertarian – a person of the state who conveys a message to people
• Licentious – lack of standards

Words Beginning from M

• Mendacious – lying
• Multifarious – different kinds or variety

Words Beginning from O

• Obdurate – not changing your mind according to others
• Ostracism – excluding from something

Words Beginning from P

• Pejorative – expressing criticism
• Pertinacious – sticking to your actions or words
• Phlegmatic – not getting angry easily
• Promulgate – making an official announcement

Words Beginning from Q

• Quotidian – everyday event

Words Beginning from R

• Recalcitrant – tough to control

Words Beginning from S

• Sanctimonious – acting superior to others
• Solipsism – self-centred

Words Beginning from T

• Travesty – not have qualities in a shocking way

Words Beginning from U

• Ubiquitous – something very common

Words Beginning from V

• Vicissitude – changes and problems of life that you have to deal with
• Vociferous – saying what is on your mind in a confident way C.F. Source: https://learn.podium.school/articles/difficult-english-words-and-their-meanings/#htoc-50-difficult-english-words-and-their-meanings

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