| A | B |
|---|
| contrite | grieving and penitent for sin or shortcoming |
| inanimate | not endowed with life or spirit |
| enmity | deep-seated and typicaly mutual hatred or ill will |
| impenitent | not penitent (expressing humble or regretfull pain for sins or offenses) |
| discomfited | to put in a state or perplexity and embarrassment |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| disavow | deny responsibility for |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute; also a noisy controversy |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise or abandon an extreme position or attitude; uncompromising |
| precipitate | to bring about, especially abruptly |
| attribute | to explain by indicating a cause |
| dissent | to differ in opinion |
| enumerated | counted; tallied |
| emend | to correct |
| zealous | filled with or characterized by zeal |
| phlegmatic | having or showing a slow and stolid temperament; apathetic |
| diminished | reduced in scope or size |
| enervated | lacking physical, mentalo, or moral vigor; to lessen the vitality or strength of |
| dire | arousing terror or causing extreme distress; calling a quick action, urgent |
| warranted | sanctioned, authorized |
| substantiate | to establilsh by proof or competent evidence; verify |
| defiantly | full of defiance (disposition to resist, willingness to contend or fight) |
| scoffed | to treat or address with derision; mocked, ridiculed |
| idolatry | immoderate attachment or devotion to something |
| subjective | modified or affected by personal views, experience, or background |
| despoiling | to strip or belongings and value; pillage |
| corroboration | to support with evidence or authority |
| complying | to conform or adapt one's actions to another's wishes |
| corollary | a deduction or inference |
| emancipation | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted useage or conduct, esp in odd or whimsical ways |
| inviolable | secure from violation or profanation; unbreakable |
| consecrate | to make inviolable or venerable; to declare sacred |
| entitlement | the state or condition of being entitled; right |
| treacherous | marked by hidden dangers |
| compromise | to adjust or settle by mutual concessions |
| consensus | general agreement; unanimity |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| stealthy | intended to escape observation; secret |
| theoretically | according to an ideal or assumed set of facts or principles, in theory |
| trivialize | to make trivial (of little worth or importance) |
| doctrinaire | one who attempts to put into effect an abstract doctrine or theory with little or no regard for practical difficulties |
| implementation | to put into practical effect; carry out |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded |
| heightened | to increase the amount or degree of |
| innovative | characterized by, tending to, or introducing innovations (a new idea, method, or device) |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued; untiring |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words; indescribable |
| boundless | having no boundaries; vast |
| culminate | to reach the highest or a climactic or decisive point |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind, extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| discern | to recognize or identify as separate and distinct; discriminate |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence |
| inferred | derived as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| industrious | persistently active; zealous |
| factual | restricted to or based on fact |
| contemporary | marked by characteristics of the present period; modern |
| anachronistic | a person or thing that is chronologically out of place |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty (pleas); relentless |
| dispel | to drive away by or as if by scattering; dissipate |
| indiscernible | incapable of being discerned; not recognizable as distinct |
| foliage | the leaves of one or more plants |
| unrelenting | not softened or yielding in determination |
| predatory | living by predation (a mode of life in which food is primarily obtained by the killing and consuming of animals) |
| trepidation | apprehension, fear |
| parasite | an organism living in, with, or on another organism |
| plethora | excess, profusion |
| incantation | a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as part of a ritual of magic |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end; thwart |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| foray | a brief excursion or attempt, esp outside one's accustomed sphere |
| alight | to descend from the air and come to rest |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel |
| respite | an interval of rest or relief |
| imprint | to fix indelibly or permanently |
| conjure | to bring to mind |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light |
| divine | supremely good |
| glutton | one given to habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| palate | the sense of taste |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| expropriate | the action of the state in taking or modifying the proterty rights of an individual in the exercise of its sovereignty |
| ponderous | of very great weight; heavy |
| vexed | to bring trouble, stress, or agitation to |
| imputed | to lay the responsiility or blame for, often falsely or unjustly; charge, attribute |
| servile | of or befitting a slave or a menial person |
| astute | having or showing shrewdness and perspicacity |
| enlightened | to furnish knowledge to |
| beneficiary | one who benefits from something |
| equitable | fair |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, congenial |
| mire | to cause to get stuck in |
| benign | having no significant effect; harmless |
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| anarchy | absense of government |
| profusion | great quantity; lavish display or supply |
| prolific | abundant growth, generation, or reproduction |
| exultant | filled with or expressing great joy or triumph; jubilant |
| inflamed | to excite to excessive or uncontrollable action or feeling |
