Small Words for Big Words

This section has been put into this site simply to provide mental recreation on Small Words and to help those who are interested in word games. It is well to emphasize, however, that it is generally better to use the Small Words rather than the big words both in speaking and in writing.

Big Words…Small Words

1. Absolution…forgiveness
2. Abstemious…moderate
3. Acatalectic…complete
4. Acauline…stem less
5. Accessory…additional
6. Acephalous…headless
7. Acerbity…bitterness
8. Acerbity…sourness
9. Adipose…fatty
10. Adjacent…near
11. Adulation…flattery
12. Adversary…enemy
13. Affirmation…oath
14. Afflatus…inspiration
15. Affluence…wealthy
16. Alacrity…briskness
17. Alacrity…readiness
18. Aliment…food
19. Alimony…maintenance
20. Amanuensis…secretary
21. Ambiguous…doubtful
22. Ameliorate…improve
23. Amiable…lovable
24. Amicable…friendly
25. Amity…friendship
26. Amorphous…shapeless
27. Animosity…hatred
28. Animus…intention
29. Anonymous…nameless
30. Anourous…tailless
31. Aperients…purgative
32. Aphonia…dumbness
33. Aptitude…Fitness
34. Arenaceous…sandy
35. Asperity…harshness
36. Aspersion...slander
37. Asphyxia…suffocating
38. Assiduity…diligence
39. Assuetude…habit
40. Audacious…bold
41. Authentic…genuine
42. Avidity…eagerness
43. Avocation…occupation

44. Banausic…mechanical
45. Beguile…deceive
46. Benediction…blessing
47. Bias … prejudice
48. Boisterous…noisy

49. Calcareous…chalky
50. Calisthenics…gymnastics
51. Calligraphy… penmanship
52. Cantankerous…quarrelsome
53. Cecity…blindness
54. Celerity…swiftness
55. Chanticleer…cock
56. Charlatan…quack
57. Chicanery…trickery
58. Chirography… penmanship
59. Chivalrous…gallant
60. Chronometer…clock
61. Cinerary… ashes
62. Clandestine…secret
63. Clemency…leniency
64. Clocher…belfry
65. Co-adjutor…huge
66. Coagulation…clotting
67. Coalesce…unite
68. Coerce…compel
69. Cogitate…think
70. Collateral…parallel
71. Colossal…huge
72. Commiseration…pity
73. Commodious… spacious
74. Commodious…roomy
75. Communication…denunciation
76. Commutation…exchange
77. Compendious…brief
78. Compunction…remorse
79. Concierge…porter
80. Condign…worthy
81. Confabulate…gossip
82. Conjecture…guesses
83. Consentaneous…unanimous
84. Consign…send
85. Conspectus…synopsis
86. Consuetude…custom
87. Contaminate…pollute
88. Contiguity…nearness
89. Contiguous…adjoining
90. Contumacious…stubborn
91. Contumelious…insolent
92. Conundrum…riddles
93. Convivial…jovial
94. Copious…plentiful
95. Corneous…horny
96. Credence…belief
97. Culpable…guilty
98. Cupidity…covetousness
99. Cupidity…greed
100. Cursory…hasty

It is generally better to use the Small Words rather than the big words both in speaking and in writing.

101. Debility…weakness
102. Debonair…courteous
103. Decadence…..decay
104. Decapitate…behead
105. Declivity. Slope
106. Decollate…behead
107. Decrepit…feeble
108. Decrescent…waning
109. Defeasance...defeat
110. Defecate…purify
111. Deficiency…lack
112. Deglutition…swallowing
113. Delectable…delightful
114. Deleterious…hurtful
115. Delinquent…wrong-doer
116. Delitescent…latent
117. Demise…death
118. Demotic…popular
119. Denegation…denial
120. Depredator…thief
121. Depurate…purify
122. Derelict…abandoned
123. Deride…mock
124. Desipient…foolish
125. Desuetude…disuse
126. Desultory...rambling
127. Diaphanous…transparent
128. Disingenuous…insincere
129. Disseminate…scatter
130. Domicile…home
131. Domicile…house
132. Dubious…doubtful
133. Dudgeon…anger

134. Echinated…prickly
135. Edacious…greedy
136. Edentate…toothless
137. Edible…eatable
138. Edulcorate…sweeten
139. Effeminate…womanish
140. Effulgence…luster
141. Elliptical…oval
142. Elucidate…explain
143. Encephalon…brain
144. Encomium…praise
145. Endeavour…try
146. Enigma…puzzle
147. Equivocal…doubtful
148. Erroneous…wrong
149. Erudite…learned
150. Eschew…avoid
151. Esculent…edible
152. Esoteric…mysterious
153. Espionage…spying
154. Eulogy…praise
155. Evanesce…disappear
156. Exiguous…small
157. Eximious…excellent
158. Exorbitant…excessive
159. Expectorate…spit
160. Expeditious…quick
161. Extortionate…oppressive

162. Facetious…jocular
163. Factitious…artificial
164. Fainéant… idle
165. Fallacious…misleading
166. Fallacious…misleading
167. Fatuous…foolish
168. Fecundity…fruitfulness
169. Felicitation…congratulation
170. Firmament…sky
171. Fortnightly…bi-weekly
172. Fortitude…strength
173. Fortuitous…accidental
174. Fremescent…noisy
175. Frigid…cold
176. Fugacious…fleeting
177. Furlough…vacation

178. Garish…gaudy
179. Garrulous….talkative
180. Geniculate…knotted
181. Gigantic…huge
182. Grandiloquent…bombastic
183. Gratuitous…free
184. Gravamen…grievance
185. Guerdon…reward

186. Habiliment…garment
187. Hallucination…delusion
188. Hamate…crooked
189. Hauteur…pride
190. Hebdomadal…weekly
191. Hiatus…gap
192. Hilarious…merry
193. Histrionic…theatrical
194. Homily…sermon
195. Humidity…moisture
196. Hypochondriacal…melancholy

197. Ignominy…disgrace
198. Immaculate…spotless
199. Impeccable…blameless
200. Impuissant…powerless
201. Inadequate…insufficient
202. Inane…empty
203. Inanimate...lifeless
204. Incarcerate…imprison
205. Incertitude…uncertainty
206. Incessant…unceasing
207. Indigenous…native
208. Indigent…poor
209. Indolent…lazy
210. Inebriate…drunk
211. Ineffable…unspeakable
212. Inexorable…inflexible
213. Infallible…unerring
214. Ingenuous…candid
215. Innocuous… harmless
216. Innoxiously… harmlessly
217. Inquietude…uneasiness
218. Insipience…foolishness
219. Insomnia…sleeplessness
220. Insouciant…careless
221. Insubordinate…disobedient
222. Insurgent…rebel
223. Insurrection…rebellion
224. Interminable…endless
225. Internecine…deadly
226. Interstice…space
227. Intimidate…frighten
228. Intrepidity…daring
229. Inundate…flood
230. Irascible…irritable

It is generally better to use the Small Words rather than the big words both in speaking and in writing.

231. Jejune…bare
232. Jocund…gay
233. Juvenescence…youthfulness

234. Labefaction…decay
235. Labyrinth…maze
236. Lacerate…tear
237. Lancinate…tear
238. Lascivious…lewd
239. Lassitude…weariness
240. Lentitude…slowness
241. Lethal…deadly
242. Lethiferous…deadly
243. Lexicon…dictionary
244. Loquacious….talkative
245. Lucrative…profitable
246. Ludicrous…comical
247. Lugubrious…mournful

248. Malediction…curse
249. Manacle…handcuff
250. Masticate…chew
251. Matrimony…marriage
252. Mendacious…untruthful
253. Mendacity…falsehood
254. Mendicant…beggar
255. Merchandise…goods
256. Minacious…threatening
257. Minauderie…affectation
258. Miscellaneous…mixed
259. Missive…letter
260. Moiety…Half
261. Mucedinous …mouldy
262. Mucilage…gum
263. Mundane…worldly
264. Munificent…liberal
265. Myriad…countless

266. Nefarious...wicked
267. Negation…denial
268. Nescient…ignorant
269. Nigrescent…blackish
270. Nostalgia…home-sickness
271. Noxious…hurtful

272. Obdurate…stubborn
273. Obese…fat
274. Oblivion…forgetfulness
275. Obsequious…cringing
276. Obstreperous…noisy
277. Occidental…western
278. Oecumenical…universal
279. Oleaginous…oily
280. Opprobrium…disgrace
281. Opulent…rich
282. Oriental…eastern
283. Oriental…eastern
284. Orison…prayer
285. Oscillate…waver
286. Osculate…kiss
287. Osseous…bony

288. Parsimonious…frugal
289. Pellucid…clear
290. Pendulous…hanging
291. Penitentiary…prison
292. Peradventure…perhaps
293. Perfunctory…careless
294. Pertinacious…stubborn
295. Petulant...peevish
296. Pishogue…sorcery
297. Plenary…full
298. Plenipotentiary…ambassador
299. Plenitude…fullness
300. Plumose … feathery
301. Porraceous…greenish
302. Portal…door
303. Predatory…plundering
304. Prehensile…seizing
305. Pristine…original
306. Proclivitous…steep
307. Procrastinate…defer
308. Prognosis…forecast
309. Propensity…inclination
310. Prophylactic…preventive
311. Propitiate…appease
312. Prospicience…foresight
313. Provenance…origin
314. Proximity…near
315. Prudence…discretion
316. Puerile…childish
317. Pugilist…boxer
318. Pugnacious…aggressive
319. Pusillanimous…faint-hearted

It is generally better to use the Small Words rather than the big words both in speaking and in writing.

320. Querulous…complaining
321. Quiescent…dormant
322. Quixotic…visionary
323. Quondam…former
324. Quotidian…daily
325. Qurimonious…complaining

326. Rabid…mad
327. Rapacious…greedy
328. Rapine…plunders
329. Recapitulate…summarize
330. Recipient…receiver
331. Recluse…hermit
332. Recreant…coward
333. Rectitude…uprightness
334. Refescent…reddish
335. Renovate…renew
336. Replete…full
337. Reticent…silent
338. Reverberate…echo

339. Salacious…lustful
340. Salutary…beneficial
341. Sangfroid…calmness
342. Sangfroid…coolness
343. Sanguinary…blood-thirsty
344. Sebaceous…fatty
345. Secrete…hide
346. Sedentary…sitting
347. Sediment…dregs
348. Sempervirent…evergreen
349. Sempiternal…everlasting
350. Senile…old
351. Sepulcher…tomb
352. Setaceous…bristly
353. Simulacrum…image
354. Sobriquet…nickname
355. Somnolence…sleep
356. Spurious…false
357. Sterile…barren
358. Stratagem…trick
359. Subaltern…subordinate
360. Subterranean…underground
361. Succedaneum…substitute
362. Succinct…brief
363. Succulent…juicy
364. Sudation…sweat
365. Supercilious…arrogant
366. Surmise…guesses
367. Surreptitious…secret
368. Surveillance…supervision

369. Tableau…picture
370. Taciturn…reserved
371. Taciturn…silent
372. Tardy…slow
373. Temerarious…reckless
374. Tenement…dwelling-house
375. Tentative…experimental
376. Tenuity…thinness
377. Terminus…boundary
378. Textile…woven
379. Thesaurus…dictionary
380. Thrasonical…boasting
381. Timorous…fearful
382. Titillate…tickle
383. Totile…twisted
384. Traduce…defame
385. Tranquil…calm
386. Transgression…sin
387. Translucent…opaque
388. Truculent…savage
389. Turpitude…baseness
390. Twaddle…chatter

391. Udometer…rain-gauge
392. Ululate…howl
393. Umbrage...offence
394. Undulate…wavy
395. Unguent…ointment

396. Vacillate…waver
397. Vacuous…empty
398. Valediction…farewell
399. Valetudinarian…invalid
400. Vanquish…conquer
401. Vapulation…flogging
402. Vaunt…boast
403. Velocity…swiftness
404. Venal…mercenary
405. Veracity…truth
406. Verisimilitude…probability
407. Veritable…real
408. Vernacular…native
409. Vertigo…giddiness
410. Vicissitude…change
411. Vilify…slander
412. Viridescent…greenish
413. Viscid…sticky
414. Vitiate…corrupt
415. Vituperate…abuse
416. Vivacious…lively
417. Vociferate…bawl
418. Voracious…gluttonous
419. Vouchsafe…condescend

420. Wraith…ghost

It is generally better to use the Small Words rather than the big words both in speaking and in writing.

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