| A | B |
|---|
| intimate | to state indirectly; hint |
| comply | to obey a command; agree to a request |
| solemnity | seriousness |
| judicious | cautious;wise |
| veritable | genuine;true |
| laborious | difficult; involving much hard work |
| revel | to take pleasure |
| fastidious | difficult to please; critical |
| complacency | self-satisfaction |
| serenely | calmly |
| benevolence | kindness |
| blandly | mildly |
| somber | gloomy;dark |
| sentinel | guard;sentry |
| deference | respect |
| perilous | dangerous |
| oscillation | regular back-and-forth movement |
| pivotal | central;something around which other things turn |
| appalling | dismaying |
| malign | harmful;evil |
| conflagration | huge fire |
| stolidity | the show of no emotion |
| obliterate | to destroy |
| prostrate | lying flat on the ground |
| ominous | sinister;dangerous |
| grotesque | strange;absurd |
| pious | devoted to one's religion |
| trepidation | anxious uncertainty |
| obliquely | slantly |
| deluge | rush;flood |
| myriad | countless |
| nominal | very small |
| frugal | thrifty;economical |
| opulent | abundant;plentiful |
| surmise | guess |
| mirth | joyfulness |
| ludicrous | laughable;absurd |
| plaintive | expressing sadness |
| rancor | anger |
| craven | very fearful; cowardly |
| insolent | arrogant |
| atrocity | cruelty;brutality |
| irked | annoyed; irritated |
| morose | gloomy |
| rue | to regret |
| guffaw | to burst out laughing |
| vanity | excessive pride |
| jilt | to reject after previously accepting |
| perpetuity | eternity |
| temerity | recklessness |
| diffident | shy and timid; reserved; bashful |
| vindicate | to prove correct |
| prodigal | abundant |
| languid | weak |
| acrid | bitter; irritating |
| unobtrusively | inconspicuously; quietly |
| raucous | loud; boisterous |
| exuberant | intensely happy; visibly enthusiastic |
| saucily | sassy; impertinently |
| flippancy | impertenence; glibness |
| reverie | daydream; fantasy |
| gregarious | sociable |
| hedonistic | self-indulging pursuit of happiness |
| ruse | trick; deception |
| acrimoniously | bitterly; harshly |
| affluent | rich |
| tepid | lukewarm |
| ascetic | severe; stern |
| mesmerizing | hypnotizing |
| ingenious | clever; original |
| malodorous | bad smelling |
| prodigy | extremely gifted person |
| conundrum | riddle |
| interloper | intruder or meddler |
| pulverized | crushed; destroyed |
