Some of my MOST FAVOURITE WORDS, in no particular order. I could go on forever, but I stuck to the basic 50. Enjoy! I even added my own pronunciations. A couple of them vary from the normal, because I tend to speak in tall vowels, but for the most part, we walk on even ground.
1. facetious (fuh-see-shiss)
2. infallible (in-fal-ih-bul)
3. heightened (hy-tinned)
4. pavane (puh-vawn)
5. corpse (core-pss)
6. affable (ah-fuh-bul)
7. aloof (uh-loof)
8. irrelevant (ih-rell-uh-vehnt)
9. ascription (uh-skrip-shin)
10. caustic (caw-stic)
11. knickers (nih-kerrs)
12. dismantle (diss-man-tul)
13. dignified (dihg-nih-fyed)
14. craft (crawft)
15. awkward (aw-kwerd)
16. fraudulent (fraw-jule-lehnt)
17. grey (graye)
18. epitome (eh-piht-uh-mee)
19. encapsulate (en-capp-sul-ayt)
20. perception (pur-sepp-shin)
21. circumnavigate (sur-cuhm-nah-vih-gayt)
22. kapok (kay-poc)
23. commerce (caw-murce)
24. paradigm (pair-uh-dym)
25. Guernica (gwair-nih-kuh)
26. declassé (dee-claws-ay)
27. toxic (tawks-ic)
28. intensity (in-tenn-sit-ee)
29. luminosity (lew-min-aw-sit-ee)
30. voluptuous (vuh-lup-shoo-iss)
31. aggressive (uh-gress-iv)
32. improbable (im-praw-buh-bul)
33. pedagogy (pehd-uh-go-jee)
34. deconstruct (dee-cun-struc-shin)
35. infidelity (in-fih-dell-ih-tee)
36. exact (eks-akt)
37. impact (im-pakt)
38. transcendental (trahn-sen-den-tul)
39. crisp (cr-ih-sp)
40. cognac (cohn-yak)
41. desperado (dess-pur-aw-doe)
42. earthscape (urth-skayp)
43. tourniquet (tore-nih-ket)
44. composite (comm-pawz-it)
45. fracture (frak-chor)
46. dissociative (dis-sos-ee-ih-tiv)
47. delicate (dell-ih-kit)
48. tactical (tak-tih-kul)
49. wok (wawk)
50. fortitude (for-tih-tyood)
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