| A | B |
|---|
| aesthetic | showing appreciation of beauty and nature |
| abstinence | giving up of certain pleasures |
| aloof | indifferent unsympathetic not interested |
| ambivalence | having conflicting attitudes |
| chastise | to criticize severely |
| clandestine | secretive |
| coalesce | to grow together; combine |
| colloquial | coversational use in informal speech |
| concise | saying much in little words |
| crass | course or stupid |
| cursory | without attention to detail |
| dearth | shortage |
| condone | to forgive or overlook |
| decadence | decline or decay |
| deter | to discourage, to dissuade |
| disperse | to send in different directions |
| desecrate | to treat with disrespect |
| dogmatic | positive and emphatic in opinion |
| demeanor | behavior |
| dismantle | to pull down or take apart |
| fastidious | dainty in taste; hard to please |
| fervor | intense emotion, great feeling of warmth |
| incorrigible | too firmly to be reformed or changed |
| morose | bad tempered; gloomy |
| disdain | feeling of contempt for anything unworthy |
| duplicity | deceitfulness |
| indigent | poverty stricken |
| jargon | specified vocab of a group |
| euphemism | use of an indirect expression in place of a harsh one |
| expedient | useful advantageous, based on self interest |
| guile | deceit cunning |
| lethargic | dull, drowsy, sluggish |
| malicious | spiteful intendedly mischievous or harmful |
| nomenclature | naming system in art or science |
| overt | open not hidden |
| peripheral | external incidental |
| plagiarize | to take ideas, writings from someone and present them as your own |
| pompous | self important |
| procrastinate | to delay to put off |
| profusion | abundance generous amount |
| quandary | condition of being doubtful, confused |
| rejuvenate | to make young or fresh again |
| precocious | having or showing more knowledge than usual age |
| prudent | careful cautious in a sensible way, wise |
| relic | thing of the past |
| rescind | to cancel |
| stringent | severe strict |
| scrutinize | to look at very carefully |
| talon | claw of a bird |
| superficial | concerned comprehending what is apparent |
| thwart | to oppose or block |
| tentative | hesitant |
| zealot | a person who shows great enthusiasm for a cause |
| waive | to dispense with to relinquish to postpone |
| sporadic | occuring at irregular intervals |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| respite | a temporary cessation or postponement; interval of rest |
| marred | injured damaged |
| gullible | easily deceived |
| advocate | to support or in favor of |
| writhe | to twist squirm to suffer |
| eulogy | high prasie for a deceased person |
| devoid | entirely without lacking |
| ebb | to decline |
| callous | unfeeling insensitive |
| unethical | not conforming to approved standards of behavior a socially accepted code or professionally endorsed practices |
