Want to sound smarter when you talk? Add the words below to your vocabulary, and you will.

Words to Add to Your Vocabulary

1. Accolade: a mark of acknowledgment, an honor.
2. Acquiesce: to go along without protest, even if you don’t r want to.
3. Bamboozle: disguise one’s true motives; to cheat or deceive another person.
4. Camaraderie: trust between friends; a spirit of familiarity.
5. Conundrum: a complex problem.
6. Idyllic: peaceful, happy, pleasing.
7. Impeccable: faultless or without defect; incapable of wrongdoing.
8. Perfunctory: something is done without much care or attention.
9. Ruminate: to think about something thoroughly and in great detail.
10. Tempestuous: identified by explosive conditions.
11. Tenuous: very weak or slight and likely to change.
12. Vacillate: to go back and forth between two points, waver between different opinions, or be indecisive.
13. Vitriolic: harsh or corrosive in tone.
14. Wheelhouse: a metaphor for an individual’s area of comfort or expertise.
15. Zealous: displaying or feeling energetic support for a person, cause, etc.