| A | B |
|---|
| abhored | hated |
| abolish | to get rid of |
| abominable | horrid |
| absolve | forgive |
| acceleration | The rate of change of velocity with respect to time |
| affliction | illness |
| admonished | cautioned against |
| affronted | insulted intentionally |
| anointed | to choose as if by divine intervention |
| apparition | A sudden or unusual sight |
| arc | the curved path or course |
| astonished | amazed |
| astronaut | space explorer |
| avail | to use to one's advantage |
| avenger | one who retaliates |
| awe | shock; surprise |
| banishment | exile |
| bastion | a stronghold |
| brawn | muscle |
| chagrined | disappointed or humiliated |
| confounded | bewildered; perplexed |
| crude | lacking refinement; undeveloped |
| defiance | bold resistance to authority |
| dialect | speech |
| dumbfounded | astonished |
| guile | trickery |
| harassment | persecution |
| infatuation | short lived passion |
| interceded | acted on someone else's behalf |
| intimidation | to force by inducing fear |
| jaunting | journeying |
| launch | to send forth or catapult |
| malignancy | life-threatening |
| mortified | embarassed |
| nefarious | villainous, wicked |
| perpetrator | someone who commits a wrongdoing |
| pessimist | a person who anticipates the worst |
| ploy | manuever to gain an advantage |
| prodigious | extraordinary |
| retaliation | to pay back in kind |
| salutatorian | second ranked student in graduating class |
| satellite | a device designed to be launched into orbit around the earth |
| scrip | a certificate to be exchanged for goods, as at a company store. |
| shaft | a vertical or sloping passageway leading to the surface. |
| shuttle | To go, move, or travel back and forth |
| Sputnik | first satellite (Russian) |
| strategy | plan or method |
| surreptitiously | done secretly |
| tipple | a structure where coal is cleaned and loaded in railroad cars or trucks. |
| valedictorian | student w/highest academic record |
| ventilate | to provide for the escape of air |
