| A | B |
|---|
| aplomb | poise; confidence |
| attenuate | to reduce in value; to weaken the strength or force of |
| blatant | loudly offensive; obvious |
| cerebration | a thought |
| chauvinist | militant devotion to one's sex, race or country; prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own group |
| conjecture | a guess or surmise |
| deprecate | to express disapproval; to belittle someone |
| dichotomy | a division into two (groups, ideas) |
| disseminate | to scatter; to spread widely; to sow like seeds |
| extemporaneous | done with little or no preparation or notice |
| erudite | very learned; displaying of great knowledge |
| facile | easy; done with little or no effort |
| fastidious | fussy; difficult to please |
| fractious | unruly; hard to control or manage |
| fulminate | to explode or to detonate; to issue a thunderous verbal attack; to rage |
| gesticulation | a gesture with hands or arms |
| heinous | atrocious; hatefully bad |
| histrionics | overly dramatic behavior; fits of temper |
| iconoclast | one who attacks established beliefs or institutions; destroyer of religious images or one who opposes their worship |
| ideology | ideas of a group of people |
| imbroglio | an embarrassing misunderstanding; a state of confusion |
| inchoate | recently begun; in the beginning stages |
| incumbent | one who currently holds office; imposed as an obligation |
| languish | to lose strength; to droop; to become weak |
| loquacious | talkative |
| mendacious | lying; false; untruthful |
| meretricious | attractive in a flashy way; showy |
| noxious | harmful (substance) |
| peccadillo | a slight offense or fault |
| philanthropy | the effort to increase the well-being of mankind through charity or donation |
