| A | B |
| alluvium | clay, silt or gravel carried by streams & deposited where streams slow down |
| annihilate | to destroy completely |
| aqueous | like water; containing water |
| ascend | to move up or to climb something |
| bibulous | marked by the consumptions of alcohol |
| compliant | willing to do what other people want you to do |
| comport | to cause yourself to behave in a certain way |
| confluence | the place where two rivers meet and become one |
| confound | to confuse and greatly surprise someone |
| deportment | the way someone behaves |
| efflux | the process of flowing out |
| effusive | expressing welcome, approval or pleasure in a way that shows very strong feeling |
| evacuate | remove people from a dangerous place |
| fission | the dividing into parts of the nucleus of an atom or living cell |
| fissure | a narrow deep crack in a rock or the earth |
| fundamental | forming the base from which everything else originates |
| futile | actions that have no effect or achieving nothing; unsuccessful |
| immerse | completely under the surface of a liquid; involved completely in something |
| immutable | not changing or unable to change |
| impartial | not supporting any of the sides involved in an arguement |
| importune | to make repeated forceful requests for something |
| inebriate | to become drunk |
| ingurgitate | overeat or eat immodestly |
| insatiable | a desire or need too great to be satisfied |
| inundate | to give someone so much work that they cannot deal with it; to flood with water |
| irremeable | offering no possibility of return |
| liquescent | melting; becoming a liquid |
| mutable | changeable; |
| penetrate | to move into or through something |
| permeate | to spread through something and to be present in every part |
| plebeian | of a low social class |
| plenipotentiary | a person who has the authority to act as the representative of his country |
| pluviometer | a device for measuring rain |
| profound | extreme; deep understanding of something; felt vey strongly or deeply |
| proturberance | a swelling from a surface |
| refute | to say or prove that something is wrong |
| rescind | to make a law, an agreement, etc, no longer have any legal power |
| scissile | capable of being cut smoothly or split easily |
| spontaneous | happening in a sudden way without any planning |
| suffuse | to spread through or over something completely |
| tripartite | involving 3 people or organizations, or existing in three parts |
| tumultuous | a loud noise that is produced by a crowd; a state of confusion |
| undulation | move in a wavy pattern |
| vacuous | not expressing or showing intelligent thought or purpose |