Word familiarity list
Words known by about 50 percent
Words where reader familiarity is genuinely uncertain.
- Known by
- 50%
the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
- Known by
- 49.9%
the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- Known by
- 49.8%
difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- Known by
- 49.8%
evincing the presence of a deity
- Known by
- 50.4%
an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
- Known by
- 50.7%
blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character
- Known by
- 50.8%
like or relating to a prostitute
- Known by
- 48.8%
lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
- Known by
- 48.7%
through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches)
- Known by
- 51.3%
betrayal of a trust
- Known by
- 48.6%
try to stir up public opinion
- Known by
- 48.5%
the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
- Known by
- 51.5%
last 2 million years
- Known by
- 51.6%
inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
- Known by
- 48.1%
the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers
- Known by
- 48%
not friendly
- Known by
- 47.9%
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- Known by
- 52.1%
a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)
- Known by
- 52.1%
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
- Known by
- 52.3%
of very poor quality or condition
- Known by
- 52.3%
the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks
- Known by
- 52.4%
underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful
- Known by
- 52.6%
marked by blithe unconcern
- Known by
- 52.7%
shedding tears
- Known by
- 52.8%
the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
- Known by
- 47.2%
not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Known by
- 47.1%
greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
- Known by
- 46.8%
extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant
- Known by
- 53.3%
the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft
- Known by
- 53.3%
an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- Known by
- 53.8%
the doctrines of the Kabbalah
- Known by
- 46.2%
an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
- Known by
- 46.2%
control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system
- Known by
- 45.8%
the state of nonexistence
- Known by
- 45.7%
having the property of containing fat
- Known by
- 45.3%
containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow