| A | B |
|---|
| abridge | to shorten or diminish |
| abrogate | to abolish |
| Adheres | sticks |
| adulterate | to make impure by adding less pure substances; to corrupt |
| Afflict | hurt |
| afoot | developing or in the process of happening |
| Ambiguous | unclear |
| anomaly | irregularity; straying from the norm |
| antiquated | obsolete; out of fashion; no longer usable |
| Assail | attack with blows or words |
| auspicious | favorable |
| baseness | the quality of lacking higher values |
| bestial | brutal without reason; having the attributes of a savage |
| bourgeois | pertaining to the middle class |
| brazen | shameless; insolent; disrespectful |
| Brevity | economy |
| Buffets | hits |
| Calamity | disaster |
| carnal | marked by sexuality that is often frank and unrelieved by higher emotions |
| chary | careful; cautious |
| chide | to voice disapproval; to scold |
| circumscribed | restricted or limited |
| clemency | leniency |
| cognate | related |
| communal | pertaining to a group or community |
| compliance | a yielding; acquiescence |
| confound | to cause one to become confused |
| conjecture | an inference or conclusion drawn or deduced by surmise or guesswork |
| consonance | agreement or harmony |
| Consummation | completion |
| Contrive | invent |
| convocation | an assembly where there is a coming together |
| cursory | superficial |
| dearth | a lack; a scarcity |
| desultory | disconnected; rambling |
| Dexterity | skillfulness |
| discord | a lack of agreement; strife; tension |
| Discretion | carefulness |
| dispatch | to send away with promptness or speed |
| divination | foretelling the future by means of magic |
| dross | waste material |
| edifying | instructing and improving spiritually or morally |
| emulate | to strive to excel or equal, especially through imitation |
| Endeavor | plan |
| Enmity | hatred |
| ensconce | to place securely; to conceal |
| Enterprises | projects |
| entreaty | a plea; an earnest request |
| equivocal | ambiguous, usually intended to deceive |
| esteem | estimate of value; approval and respect often blended with fondness |
| extant | still in existence |
