| A | B |
|---|
| abjure | renounce/repudiate |
| abrogate | abolish |
| abstemious | abstinent/moderate |
| acumen | keenness of judgment or insight |
| antebellum | period before a war |
| auspicious | propitious/attended by favorable circumstances |
| belie | contradict |
| bellicose | warlike or hostile in nature |
| bowdlerize | remove onjectionable material |
| chicanery | deception by trickery |
| chromosome | strand of DNA carrying herediatry material |
| churlish | boorish/vulgar |
| circumlocution | evasiveness in speech or writing |
| circumnavigate | proceed completely around |
| deciduous | not lasting; ephemeral |
| deleterious | injurious |
| diffident | shy and timid |
| enervate | weaken or destroy the vitality of |
| enfranchise | free from slavery or bondage |
| epiphany | a revelation |
| equinox | point on the celestial sphere intersecting the celestial equator |
| euro | foreign unit of currency |
| evanescent | likely to vanish like vapor |
| expurgate | to remove erroneous material |
| facetious | playfully jocular |
| fatuous | foolish or silly |
| feckless | careless and irresponsible |
| fiduciary | held in trust as in money |
| filibuster | to use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body |
| gamete | reproductive cell |
| gauche | lacking social grace |
| gerrymander | to divide up into unfair portions |
| hegemony | predominant influence of state over others |
| hemoglobin | oxygen carrying pigment in red blood cells |
| homogeneous | uniform in structure or composition |
| hubris | arrogance |
| hypotenuse | triangle side opposite the right angle |
| impeach | make an accusation against a person |
| incognito | with one's identity concealed |
| incontrovertible | unquestionable |
