| A | B |
|---|
| askance | with suspicion, distrust |
| attenuate | to make thin or slender |
| benign | gentle, kind, forgiving |
| cavil | to find fault in petty way |
| charlatan | one who fakes knowledge or ability |
| decimate | to kill or destroy a large part of |
| foilble | a weak point, failing |
| forgo | to do without, abstain from |
| fraught | full of or loaded with |
| inure | to toughen, harden, accustom |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting light |
| obsequious | marked by slavish attentiveness |
| obtuse | blunt, not coming to point, slow or dull |
| oscillate | to swing back and forth |
| penitent | regretful for one's sins |
| peremtory | having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity |
| rebuff | to snub, to repeal, drive away |
| reconnoiter | to engage in reconnaissance |
| shamebles | a slaughterhouse, a place of mass blood shed |
| sporadic | occurring at irregular intervals |
| abrogate | to repeal, cancel, declare |
| ambient | completely surrounding |
| asperity | roughness, severity, bitterness |
| burnish | to make smooth or glossy by rubbing |
| cabal | a small group working in secret |
| delectable | delightful, highly enjoyable |
| deprecate | to express mild disapproval |
| detritus | loose bits and pieces of material resulting from disintegration |
| ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm |
| eclectic | drawn from different sources |
| flaccid | limp, not firm, lacking vigor |
| impecunious | having little or no money |
| inexorable | infelxible, beyond influence, unyielding |
| moribund | dying, on the way out |
| necromancer | one who claims to reveal or unfluence the future through magic |
| onerous | burdensome, involving hardship |
| rife | common, prevalent, widespread, happening often |
| rudiments | the parts of any subject or discipline that are learned first |
| sequester | to set apart, seperate for a special purpose |
| winnow | to get ride of something unwanted, delete |
| aesthetic | pertaining to beauty |
| defunct | no longer in existence of functioning |
| discomfit | to frustrate, thwart, or defeat, to confuse |
| espouse | to take up and support, to become attached to adopt, to marry |
| fetish | an object believed to have magic powers |
| gregarious | living together in a herd or group, sociable |
| hapless | marked by a persistent absence of good luck |
| impeccable | faultless, beyond criticism or blame |
| importune | to trouble with demands, to beg |
| interpolate | to insert between other parts or things, inject |
| irreparable | incapable of being repaired |
| laconic | concise, using few words |
| languish | to become weak, feeble, or dull, wilt |
| mendacious | givien to lying or deception, unture |
| nadir | the lowest pointq |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| perfunctory | done in a superficial pr halfhearted manner |
| plaintive | expressive of sorrow or woe, melancholy, sad |
| requite | to make suitable repayment, as for a kindness, reimburse, avenge |
| tantamount | equivalent, having the same meaning, value, or effect |
