| A | B |
|---|
| abeyance | suspended action |
| abjure | recant solemnly |
| abrogate | abolish or annul by authority; put down |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend; obscure |
| abysmal | extreme; low |
| acarpous | effete |
| accretion | growth |
| adamant | hard and inflexible; unyielding |
| alacrity | cheerful promptness |
| alloy | to debase by mixing with something inferior |
| ameliorate | improve |
| anachronism | something out of place for its time |
| anomalous | unexpected |
| antipathy | aversion |
| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
| apotheosis | "deification |
| apprehension | misgiving |
| prosaic | dull |
| apprise | give notice to |
| approbation | approval |
| appropriate (verb) | take for one's own use |
| appropriate (adjective) | fitting or suitable |
| apropos | appropriate to the situation; apt |
| arabesque | a complex dance maneuver |
| ardor | warm interest |
| arduous | requiring hard work |
| arrant | someone very much disapproved of |
| ascetic | practicing self-denial |
| asperity | roughness |
| aspersion | slander |
| assay | an analysis |
| assiduous | diligent |
| attenuate | make thin. weaken |
| audacious | daring; bold |
| august | majestic |
| August | the month which follows July |
| auspices | protection or support |
| auspicious | favorable |
| austere | forbiddingly stern |
| aver | affirm |
| baleful | harmful |
| bane | cause of injury |
| baneful | causing harm or ruin |
| beatify | to bless |
| beautify | to make beautiful |
| bedizen | to adorn |
| belie | contradict |
| bellicose | belligerent |
| bilge | the swollen part of a cask or seepage from a cask" |
| blandishment | flattery |
| blithe | cheerful |
| loud | noisy |
| boorish | "crude |
| broach | bring up |
| brook | to tolerate |
| burgeon | grow forth |
| burnish | to polish |
| cabal | a scheme or plot |
| cadge | to beg |
| calumniate | to slander |
| calumny | slander |
| capricious | fickle |
| castigate | to chastise |
| censure | "expression of blame or disapproval; a rebuke" |
| chastened | corrected |
| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot |
| coeval | of the same period |
| cogent | convincing |
| complaisance | tending to comply |
| conciliatory | reconciling |
| conjoin | to join together |
| consequential | pompous |
| consternation | sudden confusion or amazement |
| contemn | to scorn or despise |
| contentious | argumentative |
| contentious | quarrelsome |
| contumacious | insubordinate |
| conundrum | a riddle |
| countenance (verb) | to favor or approve of |
| countenance (noun) | someone or something's face |
| craven | cowardly |
| credulous | gullible |
| If you have gotten this far in the drill | send Nora the word "Victory!" |
