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Below is a sampling of
difficult words found in the New King James Version. (These words are also found
in the KJV so please understand the NKJV was not published because the KJV is
too difficult to read.)
Abase, abashed,
abode, adhere, admonish, adversity, aground, algum, alienate, alighting, allays,
allotment, alloy, aloof, alms, amend, amiss, annihilated, anise, antitype,
arbitrate, apprehended, archives, armlets, ascertain, asps, attire, austere,
backbite, banishment, baths [not to get clean,] bdellium, befalls, beggarly,
begetting, behemoth,
belial, beseech, betrothal, beveled, birthstools, bittern,
bleat, booty, borne, breach, brandished, bray,
bristling, buffet, buckler, bulrush, burnished, butress, calamus, caldron, capital, carcasses, carnally, carrion, cassia, caulkers, centurion, chalcedony, chalkstones, chaste,
chasten, chrysolite, chrysoprase, circumspect, cistern, citadel, citron, clamor,
cleft, cloven, commission, commonwealth [not shared money,] compound, concede,
compulsory, conciliation, concubine, congealed, contemptuously, confederacy,
contingents, corban, coriander, countenance,
couriers covert, crags, crescents, crest, cropped, cubit, custodian [not
the one who cleans the school halls,] curds, dainties, dandled, daubed, dappled, dayspring, denarii,
deposed, deride, despoiled, diadem, diffuses, dilapidation, dispensation, disrepute, dissipation,
diviner, docile, dragnet, dregs,
drachmas, dropsy, dross, dryshod, eczema,
edict, edification, elaborate, embellish, emitted, enigma, enmity, entrails, envoy, eventide, epistle, ephod, exorcise, expiration, faction, fallow, famish, fare, fatlings, feigned festal, fetched, fidelity, figurehead,
filly, flanges, foreskin, fostered, fowlers, fuller furlongs, gad, garland, garrison, gaunt, gecko,
graven, Hellenists, hew, homers, hoopoe, immutability, indignant, insolence, insubordination, intervene,
itinerant, jackdaw, jeopardy, jubilation, kors, laden, lamentations, laud, lusty, mail [not a letter,] mammon, matrix [other than the movie,]
mattock, mercenaries, mina [not a type of bird,] mite [not a bed bug,] moorings,
nativity, offal, offscouring, omnipotent, oracle, pangs, papyrus [not a fruit,] paramours, parapet, penitents, perdition, phylacteries, pilfering,
pillage, pims, pins [not like needles or bowling- has to do with a chariot,]
pinions [not a type of nut,] plaited [not dishes,] platitudes, potentate,
potsherd, poultice, Praetorium, prattler,
principality, prodigal, proconsul, prognosticators, propitiation, pslatery, prow, pulverize, pyre, quadrans, quiver, rampart ravenous, ravished, raze [not
to lift up,] reconciliation, recount,
rend, renown, reprisal, retinue, rifled [does not have to do with guns,]
rivulets, rogue, salute [ does not have to do with the army,] satiate, satraps,
scruples, sepulcher, shamefaced, shards, Sheol, shod, shuttle [not a type of bus
or spaceship,] siegeworks, sistrums [not an affectionate term for your sisters,]
skiff, soothsayer, spelt straits, superfluous, supplanted, tamarisk, tares, tarries,
temperate, terebinth, terrestrial, tetrarch, throng, timbrel, tittle, tresses,
usury, vagabond, vassal, vehement, vermilion, verdure, verity, vestments, waifs,
wane, wanton, warp, wend, wield, winebibber, woof, wrought.
This list was taken from
http://www.patriotist.com/kjv-vocab.htm
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