| A | B |
|---|
| abandon | to leave; to desert - as in to abandon ship |
| adversity | misfortune; hardship - as in facing adversity with courage |
| calamity | disaster; castastrophe |
| defective | imperfect;damaged - as in returning defective merchandise |
| degrade | lower in character, quality, or value |
| disastrous | ruinous; devastating - as in the disastrous crash of the Hindenberg |
| futility | uselessness; ineffectiveness |
| grievance | a complaint - as in having a grievance with your boss and making a complaint |
| inconvenient | not favorable to one's comfort or purpose |
| irritate | to annoy; bother |
| jeopardy | danger;peril - the bandruptcy of his company put his job in jeopardy |
| malady | disease; disorder - doctors cannot cure every malady that afflicts us |
| malfunction | fail to perform - as in the car malfunctions if the battery is dead |
| overpower | to subdue; defeat |
| pandemonium | wild commotion and confusion of noise; uproar |
| pathos | feeling of pity or sorrow - as in feeling pathos for the victims of the flood |
| perish | to die |
| predicament | difficult or troublesome situation |
| revoke | to reverse; take back; void by cancelling - as in revoking a driving license |
| temper | a tendency to become angry or irritable |
