Word familiarity list
Academic words
School, research, and analytical vocabulary checked for reader familiarity.
- Known by
- 92.1%
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
- Known by
- 56.2%
temporary cessation or suspension
- Known by
- 19.9%
(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- Known by
- 45.7%
having the property of containing fat
- Known by
- 87.9%
servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise
- Known by
- 98.9%
someone who offers opposition
- Known by
- 98%
(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
- Known by
- 75.1%
liveliness and eagerness
- Known by
- 93.6%
the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
- Known by
- 99%
an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
- Known by
- 96.8%
mixed feelings or emotions
- Known by
- 68.2%
the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years
- Known by
- 89.3%
something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
- Known by
- 99.3%
an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole
- Known by
- 99.2%
a collection of selected literary passages
- Known by
- 33.4%
the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
- Known by
- 99.7%
an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
- Known by
- 98.4%
based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
- Known by
- 99.4%
a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
- Known by
- 47.9%
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- Known by
- 22.5%
listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)
- Known by
- 8.8%
splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly
- Known by
- 36.4%
the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- Known by
- 92.8%
the use of brief expressions
- Known by
- 53.8%
the doctrines of the Kabbalah
- Known by
- 61.6%
the production of a canal or a conversion to canals
- Known by
- 50.4%
an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
- Known by
- 90.2%
(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- Known by
- 94.8%
the relation between causes and effects
- Known by
- 32.7%
a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam
- Known by
- 98.4%
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
- Known by
- 98%
the state of cohering or sticking together
- Known by
- 77.3%
a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
- Known by
- 49.9%
the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- Known by
- 72.2%
an informal conversation
- Known by
- 80%
a very intense and uncontrolled fire