| A | B |
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| acrimony | n. bitterness or sharpness of temper, anner, or speech; hostility. |
| acrimonious | ad. sarcastic; hostile |
| affinity | n. attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship |
| ambivalent | adj. having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive. |
| ambivalence | n. mixed feelings about someone or something |
| cessation | n. a stopping; it can be either final or temporary. |
| emaciated | adj. very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny |
| enclave | n. a distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory |
| engender | v. to bring into being; to produce |
| exacerbate | v. to make more severe, bitter, or violent |
| illicit | adj. not allowed, improper, or unlawful |
| indigenous | adj. naturally living or growing in a certain area; native |
| inexorable | adj. not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless |
| infatuated | adj. filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire |
| insatiable | adj. never satisfied; greedy |
| poignant | adj. painfully moving, affecting, or touching |
| proselytize | v. to convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause. |
