| A | B |
|---|
| factitious | artificial |
| felicitous | happy or delightful |
| felling | cutting down or knocking down a tree; killing |
| fertile | capable of reproducing |
| filial | of, related to, or befitting a son or daughter |
| forbearance | patience, lenience |
| forestalled | prevented or delayed beforehand |
| fret | to worry or be annoyed |
| galling | very irritating |
| gambol | to playfully skip or leap |
| germane | important to the issue at hand; pertinent |
| gilded | covered with gold or having a golden color; having a background of wealth |
| grate | to cause irritation |
| gratis | free |
| gravity | seriousness; importance |
| heed | to give attention |
| hie | to go quickly; to hasten |
| homage | a reverential regard; respect shown by external action |
| husband | to manage prudently and in a conservative manner |
| impalpable | vague; not easily understood |
| Impious | unholy |
| importunity | an insistent and pressing demand |
| impotent | lacking physical strength or vigor; weak |
| incorporeal | having no material or tangible form |
| ingenuity | cleverness; inventiveness; resourcefulness |
| Inoculate | make resistant to |
| Insolence | disrespect |
| inter | to deposit a dead body into a grave |
| invidious | causing ill will; offensive |
| irascible | easily angered |
| jaded | weary from overuse; surfeited |
| jocose | joking; humorous |
| Jocund | happy |
| jocund | sprightly and lighthearted in disposition, character, or quality |
| malinger | to feign sickness |
| Mandate | order |
| martial | of, related to, or suggesting of war |
| maudlin | tearfully sentimental |
| Melancholy | sadness |
| meretricious | showily attractive; tawdry |
| misanthrope | hater of mankind |
| moiety | a part, portion, or share |
| mote | a very small particle; a speck |
| mutinous | rebellious; unruly |
| neophyte | beginner; convert |
| oblivion | a state of being forgotten |
| obsequious | overly attentive; servile |
| Obsequious | overly respectful |
| Obstinate | stubborn |
| obstinate | unyielding regardless of reason or logic |
| obstreperous | noisy; boisterous |
| Ominous | threatening |
| opulence | wealth |
| ostentatious | showy; pretentious |
| ostracize | to banish |
| palatable | tasty |
| palpable | tangible; perceptible; easily noticeable |
| Panders | pimps |
| Paradox | contradiction |
| paradoxical | something that appears false or contradictory but is actually correct |
| parch | to become dry from heat; to shrivel from heat |
| parsimony | stinginess |
| partisan | one who exhibits extreme or possible blind allegiance to a group or cause |
| pedant | one who possesses mere book learning |
| peevish | fretful; obstinate |
| perdition | utter damnation; ruin |
| peremptory | dictatorial; unconditional |
| perfunctory | mechanical; indifferent |
| Perilous | dangerous |
| Pernicious | harmful |
| peruse | to read or examine |
| philistine | lacking in culture; commonplace |
| piquant | stimulating to the taste; exciting interest |
| pithy | concise and meaningful |
| plausible | seemingly acceptable, believable, or possible |
| ponderous | very heavy; unwieldy from weight |
| portent | a sign or forewarning |
| Portentous | ominous |
| potent | powerful; having a strong effect |
| prate | to talk idly and foolishly at a great length |
| precursor | something that comes before; a forerunner |
| prodigal | wasteful or extravagant |
| profane | showing contempt towards sacred things |
| Profanely | disrespectfully |
| Profound | deep |
| promontory | land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| Purging | cleansing |
| quaint | unusual in character or experience |
| qualm | misgiving |
| ratify | to give formal approval |
| Rebuke | scolding |
| recondite | concealed; profound |
| relish | to take great pleasure and delight in |
| remonstrate | to protest |
| Remorse | guilt |
| remuneration | compensation |
| requite | to make repayment or to return |
| retrograde | reverting to an earlier or inferior conditionÊ |
| rhapsodize | to express in an overly enthusiastic manner |
| rouse | to awaken; to become active |
| salubrious | wholesome |
| sanctify | to set apart for sacred use; to make holy; to purify |
| scant | barely sufficient |
| scintillate | sparkle |
| sedulous | industrious |
| sepulcher | a burial vault |
| sovereign | possessed of controlling power |
| spurn | to reject or to refuse with hostility |
| Surmise | guess |
| suspire | to breath; to sigh |
| sycophant | flatterer; parasite |
| tantamount | equivalent |
| Temperance | moderation |
| tempestuous | turbulent; stormy |
| tenable | capable of being maintained in argument; rationally defensible |
| traducer | one who slanders or speaks falsely about someone |
| Transformation | extreme change |
| trappings | articles of dress or adornment, especially accessories |
| Treacherous | disloyal |
| Treason | rebellion |
| tryst | a meeting, usually secret in nature |
| Tyrant | dictator |
| Usurps | captures |
| vacillate | to sway to and fro; to show indecision |
| volition | act of determination |
| Vulnerable | secure |
| wanton | immoral; lewd |
| zealot | fanatic |
