| A | B |
|---|
| abstain | to choose not to do something |
| anomaly | deviation from what is normal |
| arbitrate | to judge a dispute between two opposing parties. |
| banal | predictable, cliched, boring |
| chicanery | deception by means of craft or guile |
| credulous | too trusting, gullible |
| desultory | jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
| dogma | a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief |
| elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech |
| equivocate | to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead (evasive) |
| florid | excessively decorated or embellished |
| guile | deceive or trickery |
| inchoate | not fully formed; disorganized |
| lavish | to give unsparingly; extremely generous or extravagent |
| malinger | to evade responsibility |
| opprobrium | public disgrace |
| obdurate | hardened in feeling; resistance to persuasion |
| proliferation | to increase in number quickly |
| propriety | correct behavior; obedience to rules and customes |
| stolid | unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
| sublime | lofty or grand |
| veracity | filled with truth and accuracy |
