| A | B |
|---|
| admonish | to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty |
| breach | an opening, gap; a violation or infraction; to create an opening, break through |
| brigand | a bandit |
| circumspect | careful, cautious |
| commandeer | to seize for military or official use |
| cumbersome | clumsy, hard to handle |
| deadlock | a complete standstill; to bring to a standstill |
| debris | scattered fragments, wreckage |
| diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, long - winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread |
| dilemma | a difficult or perplexing situation or problem |
| adjourn | to stop proceedings for a time |
| alien | a citizen of another country; foreign, strange |
| comely | having a pleasing appearance |
| compensate | to make up for; to repay for services |
| dissolute | loose in one's morals or behavior |
| erratic | not regular or consistent; different fromwhat is ordinarily expected; undependable |
| expulsion | the process of driving or forcing out |
| feint | a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; (v.) to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of |
| fodder | food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose |
| fortify | to strengthen; build up |
| abridge | to make shorter |
| adherent | a follower; attached, sticking to |
| altercation | an angry argument |
| cherubic | resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent |
| condone | to pardon or overlook |
| dissent | to disagree |
| eminent | famous, outstanding, dignified |
| exorcise | to eject something troublesome, manacing, or oppressive; to drive out as if by magic |
| fabricate | to make, manufacture; to make up, invent |
| irate | angry |
| abscond | to run off and hide |
| access | approach or admittance to places, persons, things; to get at, obtain |
| anarchy | a lack of government and law, confusion |
| arduous | hard to do, requiring much effort |
| auspicious | favorable; fortunate |
| biased | favoting one side unduly; prejudiced |
| daunt | to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten |
| disentangle | to free from tangles or complications |
| fated | determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
| hoodwink | to mislead by a trick, deceive |
| accomplice | partner in crime, a person who takes part in a crime |
| annihilate | to obliterate, to demolish, to destroy completely |
| arbitrary | unreasonable; autocratic, capricious |
| brazen | made of brass; impudent, shameless |
| catalyst | a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction |
| exodus | mass emigration, large - scale flight from someplace |
| facilitate | to ease, smooth the way, to assist |
| incorrigible | unruly, intractable; not able to be corrected |
| latent | hidden, undeveloped; present but not realized |
| militant | agressive, truculent; an activist |
| doleful | sad, dreary, sorrowful, mournful, melancholy, dolorous |
| defray | to pay for, to settle, to bear the cost, to foot the bill |
| hamper | to hold back, to hinder, to obstruct, to impede, to inhibit |
| impoverished | poor, in a state of poverty, poverty - stricken, destitute, indigent |
| ghastly | frightful, horrible; deathly pale, dreadful, appalling, gruesome, grisly |
| credible | believable, plausible, likely, acceptable |
| diligent | hardworking, industrious, not lazy |
| hew | to cut down with an ax, or to shape, to hack, to fell; to hold to, to adhere, to conform |
| atone | to make up for, to make amends for, to expiate |
| heretic | someone who does not agree with a commonly accepted attitude or belief, unbeliever, skeptic, nonconformist |
