| A | B |
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| Abrogate | abolish, annihilate, annul, cancel, invalidate, negate, nullify, set aside, vitiate, void |
| Accost | greet, hail, salute, confront, encounter |
| Adjudicate | adjudge, arbitrate, decide, decree, determine, judge, referee, rule, umpire |
| Ameliorate | amend, better, help, improve, meliorate, upgrade |
| Antithesis | antagonism, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, opposition, polarity |
| Aquiline | Of or like the eagle |
| Benignant | advantageous, benefic, beneficient, beneficial, favorable, good, helpful, profitable, propitious, salutary, toward, useful |
| Bland | smooth, suave, urbane, flat, flavorless, stupid, insipid, tasteless, inocuous, jejune, vapid, colorless, neutral |
| Cant | argot, dialect, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular |
| Chauvinism | zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory; biased devotion to any group, attitude, or cause |
| Contemporary | coetaneous, coveal, coexistant, concurrent, synchronic |
| Convivial | blithe, blithesome, boon, gay, gleeful, happy, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful |
| Corpulent | fat, fatty, fleshy, gross, obese, overblown, overweight, porcine, portly, stout, weighty |
| Decadent | corrupt, immoral, degenerate, debased, debauched, self-indulgent |
| Derision | mockery, ridicule; words intended to evoke contemptuous laughter |
| Disconcerted | abashed, chagrined, confused, discomfitted, discomforted, discountenanced, embarrassed, fazed, mortified |
| Effervescent | ebullient, exuberant, sparkling |
| Embroil | catch up, entangle, implicate, involve, mix up, suck; to draw in so that extrication is difficult |
| Ennui | Boredom; listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest |
| Evanescent | ephemeral, fleet, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitory |
| Frugality | economy, providence, prudence, thrift, thriftiness |
| Heterogeneous | assorted, diverse, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifarious, multiform, sundry, varied, variegated |
| Ignominious | discretidable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, opprobrious, shameful |
| Incongruous | discordant, discrepant, dissonant, incompatible, repugnant |
| Insipid | bland, flat, flavorless, tasteless, unsavory |
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