| A | B |
|---|
| allocate | to give (something) to someone as their share of a total amount |
| avocation | a hobby |
| benediction | An invocation of divine blessing, usually at the end of a church service. |
| benign | pleasant and kind |
| capitulate | to accept military defeat |
| carnage | the violent killing of large numbers of people |
| carnivorous | an animal that eats meat |
| circumlocution | (an example of) an indirect way of saying something |
| colloquy | a formal conversation or meeting |
| commend | to formally praise someone or something; |
| consanguine | related by blood |
| cordial | friendly and/or welcoming |
| corporeal | physical and not spiritual; of the body |
| corpulent | fat |
| deceptive | an act of hiding the truth |
| discordant | consisting of sounds, usually musical notes, that are harsh, unpleasant, or clashing |
| dissonant | sounds or musical notes that are not pleasant when heard together |
| ductile | (esp. of metals) able to be bent easily |
| edict | an official order, esp. one which is given in a forceful and unfair way |
| emancipate | to free somebody from restrictions or conventions |
| equitable | fair and reasonable; treating everyone in the same way |
| equivocal | (of statements) unclear and seeming to have two opposing meanings |
| expedite | to cause to be done more quickly; to hurry |
| garrulous | having the habit of talking a lot, esp. about unimportant things |
| impede | to slow down or cause problems for the advancement or completion of (something); get in the way of (something) |
| inception | the establishment of an organization or official activity |
| incipient | just beginning |
| indentation | a space in the edge or on the surface of (something); |
| irrevocable | impossible to change |
| languid | lacking energy, effort or enthusiasm |
| languish | to exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time |
| languor | tiredness: a pleasant feeling of weariness or weakness |
| linguistics | connected with language or the study of language |
| loquacious | talking a lot |
| magniloquent | speaking in a boastful, overly grand manner |
| malediction | a curse; slander or evil talk about somebody |
| malicious | the wish to harm other people |
| malign | causing or intending to cause harm or evil |
| omnivorous | naturally able to eat both plants and meat |
| pauciloquent | Uttering few words; brief in speech. |
| paucity | an amount which is not enough; a lack |
| precept | a rule for action or behavior, esp. obtained from moral consideration; |
| precipitate | to make (something) happen suddenly or sooner than expected |
| proverb | a short sentence, etc., usually known by many people, stating something commonly experienced or giving advice |
| recapitulate | to repeat the main points of (an explanation or description) |
| resonant | causing sounds to be clear and loud |
| sanguinary | Accompanied by bloodshed |
| sanguine | (of someone or their character) positive and hopeful |
| seduce | to lead away from good to evil |
| soliloquy | a speech in a play which the character speaks to him- or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters |
| veracious | Honest; truthful. |
| veracity | the quality of being true, honest or accurate |
| verbatim | In exactly the same words; word for word |
| verbiage | language which is very complicated and which contains a lot of unnecessary words |
| verbose | using or containing more words than are necessary; |
| verdict | an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given, esp. one made at the end of a trial; |
| voracity | Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous |
