Are these words easy or hard?

These words vary in difficulty. Some, like "reluctant", are middle or high school. Some, like "oenophile", would be unknown to many adults.

"entince", "proigate" and "merrit" appear to be mistakes. Some words are capitalised for no apparent reason.

GPYThese words vary in difficulty. Some, like "reluctant", are middle or high school. Some, like "oenophile", would be unknown to many adults.

Ok! How do I figure out on my own which word is high school level?

GPY"entince", "proigate" and "merrit" appear to be mistakes. Some words are capitalised for no apparent reason.

Oop

I don't recognize the following from the list:

merrit
disinvited (I could guess it though)
throe (usually in the plural: throes)
entince
oenophile
proigate

The others would be in a well-read person's vocabulary.

If you are looking for words on the test for high school graduates to apply for college, that would be a good start.
Here is a link:

entince = entice ?
oenophile = xenophile ? if they mistook x for a k, and typing hit the 'o' beside it...
merrit = merit

meteorquakeoenophile = xenophile ?

"oenophile" is actually a valid word.

I see it is - "a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur"
Funny, I checked it in a dictionary and didn't find it, but checking it again, it's there!
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AlpheccaStarsIf you are looking for words on the test for high school graduates to apply for college, that would be a good start.Here is a link: http://www.majortests.com/sat/wordlist.php

Oh, thanks for the link! I should have thought about it earlier! The lists contain ma

mekkalompPlethora and Obfuscate

I use these words, but not very often.
Of course it is more practical to learn the words you will encounter more often first.

Here is a wonderfully useful tool for learning a vocabulary word.
http://www.wordandphrase.info/

Another thing which might be helpful is (i) to learn the most common word fragments, which may often come from latin and greek - eg ex- inter- sub- hypo- - and also (ii) to gain a little awareness of how words mutate to form other words.
To illustrate this latter, I imagine royal, reign, rectitude, right, regulate, rigour, rich, Reich, correct, incorrigible etc would come from the latin "rex"

meteorquakeAnother thing which might be helpful is (i) to learn the most common word fragments

Will this really be helpful? I mean most of the time I learn words in context, and then I can already sense what the word might mean. If I want to know the full definition of a word, I still have to look up the word in a dictionary.