| A | B |
|---|
| bellicose | warlike, pugnacious |
| chicanery | a trick, deception by trickery |
| churlish | having a bad disposition, surly |
| circumlocution | Evasion of speech or writing, a roundabout expression |
| deleterious | having a harmful effect, injurious |
| epiphany | A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something |
| expurgate | to remove erroneous, vulgar or obscene material |
| facetious | playfully jocular, humorous |
| fatuous | vacuously, unconsciously foolish |
| feckless | feeble or ineffective |
| fiduciary | of or relating to holding trust for another |
| gauche | tactless, lacking social polish |
| gerrymander | to divide voting distrincts to benefit one party |
| hubris | overbearing pride or arrogance |
| incognito | with a concealed identity |
| incontrovertible | unquestionable, impossible to dispute |
| jejune | not interesting; dull |
| kowtow | to kneel to show worship or derference |
| filibuster | using delaying tactics |
| irony | using words to express something different from their literal meaning |
| loquacious | very talkative, garrulous |
| lugubrious | mournful, gloomy, esp. to an exaggerated degree |
| metamorphosis | marked change of shape or appearance |
| nihilism | a doctrine holding that all values are baseless |
| obsequious | fawning, full of servile compliance |
| omnipotent | having unlimited power |
| lexicon | dictionary or stock of vocabulary |
| precipitous | extremely steep or rapid |
| quotidian | everyday, commonplace, daily |
| recapitulate | to repeat in concise form |
| sanguine | passionate, cheerful, of blood |
| soliloquy | dramtic discourse when character speaks as alone |
| supercilious | feeling or showing haughty disdain, proud |
| tautology | Needless repetition, redundancy |
| tempestuous | stormy, tumultuous |
| unctuous | exaggerated or insincere earnestness, slippery |
| usurp | to take over without right |
| vacuous | empty, stupid, devoid of matter |
| vehement | forceful or intense in expression |
| vortex | place or center regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it |
