| A | B |
|---|
| amenable | agreeable, responsible to authority, pleasant, willing to give in to the wishes of another |
| artisan | a worker skilled in a craft |
| astute | quick in discernment; shrewd, clever, keen |
| criterion | a standard or rule by which something is judged |
| defame | to libel or slander; to take away a good name |
| disperse | to scatter in various directions; distribute widely |
| dissolution | the breaking up into parts; termination of a legal contract |
| draconian | hard, severe, cruel |
| elapse | to pass or go by (said of time) |
| fetish | an object of unreasonable obsessive reverence or attention |
| forage | to search or hunt for food and provision |
| gird | to encircle as with a belt; to prepare as for action |
| guise | appearance, semblance |
| karma | fate, destiny; good or bad vibrations from someone |
| lesion | a wound, a sore, especially one created by a disease |
| misnomer | an incorrect or inappropriate name |
| precarious | unsafe, unsteady, unstable |
| resurgent | rising after defeat |
| veer | to change in direction |
| curvilinear | formed, bound, or characterized by curved lines |
