| A | B |
|---|
| impertinent | not pertinent; irrelevant; characterized by insolent rudeness |
| intimation | to communicate delicately and indirectly; hint |
| odiousness | exciting or deserving hatred or repugnance |
| disposed | to give a tendency to; inclined |
| deference | respect and esteem due to a superior or elder |
| partiality | a special taste or liking; a bias |
| diligent | characterized by steady, earnest and energetic application and effort; |
| reverberate | echo; resound |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words; indescribable |
| jargon | (1) a confused, unintelligible language; (2) a strange, outlandish or barbarous language or dialect |
| supposition | the act of supposing: a hypothesis |
| brook | to stand for; tolerate |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty; discover |
| sundered | severed finally and completely, or with violence |
| imbibe | to drink in; to receive into the mind and retain |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable; denounce |
| obdurate | hardened in feelings; stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| immutable | not capable or susceptible to change |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| egotistical | an exaggerated sense of self-importance; conceit |
| abhorrence | to loathe, to regard with extreme repugnance |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something |
| lacerate | to tear or rend roughly; having the edges deeply and irregularly cut |
| odium | hatred and condemnation accompanied by loathing or contempt; detestation |
| emaciated | wasted away physically; enfeebled |
| chattel | slave; bondsman; property |
| divest | to undress or strip esp. of clothing, ornament or equipment; to take away |
| unabated | not abated; being at full strength or force |
| abolition | (1) doing away wholly; annul; (2) the ending of slavery |
| degraded | (1)lowered in rank, status or grade: demoted; (2) to bring to low esteem or into disrepute |
| insensible | (1) unaware; (2)incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation |
| entreaty | make an earnest request; plea; beg |
| profligate | (1) completely given up to dissipation and licentiousness; (2) wildly extravagant |
| dissipation | (1) intemperate living, esp. excessive drinking; (2) wasteful expenditure |
| noisome | (1) offensive to the senses, esp. the sense of smell; (2) noxious, unwholesome |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable; suffering extreme want |
| conspicuous | obvious to the eye or mind; attracting attention; striking; noticeable |
| depravity | the quality or state of being corrupted, evil, debased |
| pretensions | allegations of doubtful value; pretext |
| sagacity | the quality of having keen and farsighted penetration and judgment; discerning; shrewd |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive: deadly; (archaic) wicked |
| forte | one’s strong point |
| non-compliance | not conforming or fulfilling official requirements |
| verily | truly, confidently; certainly |
| dregs | the most undesirable part; the last remaining part; vestige |
| apostrophe | the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility; daze |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period |
| quail | to recoil in fear or dread; cower |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint; sober; grave; serious |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government; rebellion |
| impudence | the quality of being contemptuously bold and cocky, disregarding others |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety and courtesy); taking liberties |
| digress | to turn aside esp. from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing or speaking; swerve |
| imprudent | not prudent: lacking discretion and judiciousness |
| ardent | characterized by warmth of feeling typically expressed in eager zealous support or activity; impassioned |
| imbue | to permeate or influence as if by dyeing; infuse |
| calamity | a state of deep distress or misery caused by major misfortune or loss; disaster |
| perdition | eternal damnation; hell |
| redress | (1) relief from distress; (2) means or possibility of seeking a remedy (3) compensation for loss or wrong |
| annihilate | to vanquish completely; rout; to destroy the substance or force of |
| galling | markedly irritating; vexing |
| suppress | (1) to keep from public knowledge; to keep secret; to stop or prohibit the publication or revelation of (2) to put down by authority or force; subdue |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| fetters | (1) chains or shackles for the feet (2) something that confines |
| avow | (1) to declare assuredly; (2) to declare openly bluntly and without shame |
| commensurate | equal in measure or extent |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error; mistaken |
| conjecture | a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork |
| palpably | (1)capable of being touched or felt; tangible (2) easily perceptible by the mind: manifest |
| evince | (1) to constitute outward evidence of (2) to display clearly, reveal |
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin esp. through neglect or misuse |
| scathing | bitterly severe; caustic |
| denunciation | a public condemnation, pronouncing blameworthy or evil |
