| A | B |
|---|
| antecedents | something that comes before, especially ancestors |
| antipathy | hatred; feelings against |
| circumvent | to get around |
| consensus | agreement on a course of action |
| controversy | public dispute |
| decimate | to destroy or kill a large portion of something |
| demote | to lower in grade or position |
| disinterested | not having selfish interest in |
| euphemism | a more pleasant term for something distasteful |
| exorbitant | excessive |
| illegible | not readable |
| intermittant | occurring from time to time; occasional |
| malevolent | cruel; evil |
| precursor | a form that precedes a current model |
| prognosis | opinion about the future state of something |
| retrospect | hindsight |
| subordinate | lower in rank |
| synthesis | the combination of many things into one |
| transcend | to go beyond |
| trivial | unimportant |
