| A | B |
| abominate | hate or loathe intensely; abhor |
| affliction | trouble; tribulation; great suffering |
| animate | possessing life; alive |
| chronic | marked by long duration; habitual |
| exploit | abuse; use impose on |
| fancy | imagine; think; believe without being certain |
| fell | cause to fall; bring down |
| gregarious | fond of the company of others; sociable |
| innocuous | not harmful or injurious; harmless |
| isolate | set apart from others, quarantine, segregate |
| positive | confident; sure, certain |
| precipitate | accelerate; hasten the occurence |
| presumption | assumption of something that is true; premise |
| prior | earlier in time order; previous |
| propitious | tending to favor; advantageous, favorable |
| redundant | excess, superfluous; exceeding what is normal |
| strategy | method, scheme; a plan |
| tentative | conditional, provisional; for the time being |
| vanity | excessive pride in one's appearance; conceit |
| veteran | experienced, skilled, having had long practice |