| A | B |
|---|
| adulate | To show excessive admiration |
| baroque | extravagantly ornate |
| détente | easing of tension between rivals |
| disavow | to disclaim knowledge of |
| enhance | to raise the value or price of |
| execrate | to detest utterly; abhor; abominate |
| harridan | a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew |
| histrionic | overly dramatic |
| impassive | without emotion |
| incisive | remarkably clear and direct |
| inertia | inertness |
| intuitive | perceiving by intuition |
| levity | lack of appropriate seriousness |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| opulence | wealth, riches, or influence |
| querulous | full of complaints |
| repartee | a quick, witty reply |
| reprieve | to postpone or cancel punishment |
| repudiate | to reject as having no authority |
| shroud | a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial |
| surreptitious | acting in a stealthy way |
| veer | to change direction or turn about |
| vendetta | a fierce, often violent, long-lasting dispute |
| visceral | of or pertaining to the viscera |
| yaw | to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship |
