Here’s a reference list of words I like to include in essays.

Ameliorate, ascendant, ascertain, assertion, assessment, constituents, constitute, counterfactual, dispositive, eschaton, ephemeral, equilibrate, equivocate, exemplar, extemporaneous, harrowing, ideation, imperative, litany, litigate, obfuscate, obscure, opaque, parsimonious, recount, subvert, systematic, vexatious, voluminous