A | B |
Aboriginal | autochthonal, autochthonic, endemic, indigenous, native |
Adroit | clean. deft, neat, skillful |
Altruistic | beneficent, benevolent, benign, goodhearted, kindhearted |
Animosity | animus, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, hostility, ill will |
Apposite | applicable, apropros, germane, material, pertinent, relevant |
Bourgeois | A member of the middle class |
Cerebration | brainwork, cogitation, contemplation, deliberation, excogitation, meditation, reflection, rumination, speculation, thought |
Coadjutor | adjutant, aide, assistant, auxiliary, deputy, helper, lieutenant, second |
Concomitant | accompanying, attendant, attending, coincident, concurrent |
Corroborative | To strengthen or support with other evidence |
Culpability | blame, fault, guilt, onus |
Dichotomous | divided or dividing into two parts |
Dotage | caducity, senility |
Enigma | conundrum, mystery, perplexity, puzzle, riddle |
Fecund | fertile, fruitful, productive, prolific |
Flamboyant | baroque, florid, ornate, rococo, ostentatious, pretentious, showy, splashy, splurgy |
Forte | long suit, metier, speciality, strong suit |
Gamut | the entire scale or range |
Hypothetical | abstract, ideal, theoretic, transcendent |
Impetus | encouragement, fillip, impulse, incentive, inducement, motivation, prod, push, spur, stimulant |
Inchoate | amorphous, formless, shapeless, unformed, unshaped |
Indolent | faineant, idle, lazy, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggish |
Innocuous | harmless, hurtless, innocent, inoffensive, unoffensive |
Invidious | calumnious, defamatory, detractive, injurious, scandalous, slanderous |
Licentious | abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, gay, incontinent, profligate, rakish, wanton, lascivious |
|