| A | B |
|---|
| compliance | giving to others |
| garrulous | talkative |
| append | to add |
| conjecture | guesswork; to guess |
| infamous | of bad reputation |
| interminable | endless; tiresomely long |
| transcendent | outstanding; superior to others |
| cavort | to frollic |
| bullrag | to mistreat; bully |
| ante | to pay one's share-used with "up" |
| prize | to pry |
| enterprising | showing initiative and imagination |
| imminent | about to happen; impending |
| profanity | vulgar language, swearing |
| irrupt | to burst forth |
| sumptuous | splendid, rich |
| natty | stylish/neat in appearance |
| infest | to exist in unpleasantly and dangerously large numbers |
| prodigious | marvelous; enormous and awesome |
| august | impressive |
| assail | to attack |
| vagrant | aimless wanderer |
| khaki | made of khaki; drab yellowish-brown cloth |
| convivial | festive |
| quaver | a trembling voice |
| burly | heavy, muscular |
| falsetto | a voice register much higher than the normal male voice |
| cataract | a downpour or deludge |
| ingratiating | to gain favor by calculated effort |
| commiserate | to express pity for |
| disheveled | untidy |
| corpulent | fat |
| obsequious | excessively agreeable; servile; overly submissive |
| incredulous | disbelieving |
| obliterate | to destroy so that no trace is left |
| calico | a plain, coarse, cotton cloth |
| unkempt | not combed, untidy |
| florid | 1. flushed, rudy 2. Heavily decorated |
| dissipation | 1. a scattering 2. Excessive and harmful pursuit or pleasure |
| excrutiating | unbearably painful |
| urchin | a mischevous child |
| pristine | pure; unblemished |
| chasten | to refine |
| sonorous | having a loud, deep sound |
| discreet | respectful |
| dyspepsia | indigestion |
| annuity | an investment that guarantees regular payments for a specified period of time, often the holder's lifetime |
| presentiment | a feeling that something is about to happen |
