| A | B |
|---|
| burnish | to make shiny or to polish by rubbing |
| calamity | a serious event causing distress or misfortune |
| capricious | changing suddenly, fickle |
| consecrate | to dedicate or declare sacred |
| credible | reliable and believable |
| dearth | a lack, scarcity |
| decorousness | proper |
| decorum | appropriate conduct, correct and proper behavior |
| deleterious | harmful; dangerous; injurious |
| depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or peverse act |
| derision | scoffing at, mockery, ridicule |
| despondency | depression, dejection |
| despotic | act of ruling opressively and absolutely |
| discern | to differentiate differences in two or more things, to detect something obscure |
| duplicity | double-dealing, hypocrisy |
| edifice | a very large building |
| effervescent | show high spirits |
| endow | to provide with income or property, to suply with a talent or quality |
| enmity | positive hatred |
| entreaty | a plea, an earnest request |
| enumerate | to count one by one |
| erudite | scholarly |
| esoteric | understood only by a small group or a select few |
| estrange | alienate, separate |
| ethereal | heavenly, unusual delicacy, light, lacking material substance, intangible |
