| A | B |
|---|
| imminent | likely to happen without delay; impending; threatening |
| conform | to bring into harmony or agreement; adapt; to become similar; to behave in a conventional way |
| dissemble | to conceal under a false appearance; disguise; to pretend to be in the state of; stimulate |
| iniquity | lack of justice; wickedness; an unrighteous act |
| mesmerize | to hypnotize; to spellbind |
| rage | insanity; a furious, uncontrolled anger; a great force or intensity |
| recant | to withdraw or renounce beliefs or statement formerly held, esp. in a public manner |
| accost | to approach and speak to; greet first, before being greeted, esp. in an intrusive way |
| aversion | an intense dislike; antipathy; repugnance |
| ghoul | oriental folklore an evil spirit that robs graves and feeds on the flesh of the dead; a person who robs graves; a person who derives pleasure from loathsome acts |
| flotsam | the wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea; miscellaneous trifles or worthless things |
| factotum | a person hired to do all sorts of work; handyman |
| enervate | to deprive of strength or force; weaken physically or mentally ; debilitate |
| credence | belief esp. in the reports or testimony of another; credentials |
| diagnose | to make a determination of the disease or problem |
| opprobrium | the disgrace attached to conduct viewed as grossly shameful; anything bringing shame; reproachful contempt for something inferior |
| portend | to be an omen or warning of; foreshadow; signify |
| paucity | fewness; small number; scarcity; insufficiency |
| sophistry | unsound or misleading but clever and subtle argument or reasoning |
| sumptuous | involving great expense; costly; lavish; magnificient or splendid |
