Formal vocabulary
404 Formal vocabulary words
Formal-register words for academic and professional writing.
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These words are grouped by register (how formal they sound), not by a published list.
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C
D
- daunt
- dearth
- debilitate
- decorum
- defenestrate
- delineate
- demur
- denigrate
- denouement
- denounce
- deprecate
- deride
- descry
- desiccate
- desultory
- diaphanous
- diatribe
- didactic
- diffident
- dilatory
- dilettante
- disabuse
- disambiguate
- discordant
- disinterested
- disintermediate
- disparage
- disparate
- dispassionate
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- dissipate
- dissonance
- duplicitous
E
- ebullience
- ebullient
- eclectic
- edify
- effrontery
- effulgent
- egregious
- eleemosynary
- elucidate
- embellish
- emollient
- encomium
- engender
- enumerate
- epigone
- epistolary
- equable
- equanimity
- equitable
- equivocal
- equivocate
- errant
- erudite
- eschew
- esoteric
- estimable
- exacting
- excoriate
- exculpate
- execrate
- exegesis
- exonerate
- expatiate
- expatriate
- expedient
- explicate
- extenuate
- extrapolate
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