| A | B |
|---|
| fortitude | patient courage |
| condescended | to stoop to do something unworthy |
| evolved | to develop gradually |
| notoriety | fame |
| asserted | to express positively |
| acquittal | a setting free by judgment |
| elite | a select group |
| mentor | a wise teacher |
| inarticulate | unable to speak understandably |
| contemptuous | showing scorn |
| pauper | a poor person |
| excerpt | a selected passage |
| analogy | a likeness between differnt things |
| ethical | pertaining to right and wrong |
| prophetic | foretelling events |
| heresy | a belief different from accepted doctrine |
| paternal | inherited through one's father |
| posthumous | coming after death |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| electorate | all persons having the right to vote |
| malleable | capable of being shaped |
| amiable | friendly |
| vibrant | energetic |
| melodramatic | overly emotional |
| grimace | t make a face showing pain |
| indomitable | unconquerable |
| succumb | to die |
| bayou | a marshy inlet |
| whimsical | full of curious ideas |
| visage | a face or facial expression |
| callous | lacking mercy |
| mystic | mysterious |
| indignant | angered by unfairness |
| verbatim | in the exact words |
| paraphrased | to state in other words |
| commendable | praiseworthy |
| judicious | sensible |
| personification | giving something nonhuman human qualities |
| ineffectual | unable to bring about a desired result |
| apprehensive | uneasy |
| invariably | continually |
| proximity | nearness |
| affiliates | an associated person |
| rejuvenated | to make vigorous again |
| portly | comfortably stout |
| encumbered | to hinder |
| unprecedented | never done before |
| exalted | overjoyed with excitement |
| pompous | overly dignified |
| plausible | appearing to be true |
| insipit | flavorless |
| painstaking | very careful |
| deteriorate | to become worse |
| lament | to feel deep sorrow |
| compassion | pity, with a desire to help |
| discern | to detect with the senses |
| repress | to restrain |
| loathe | feeling intense dislike |
| composure | self-possession |
| atrocious | exceedingly bad |
| martial | military |
| cliche | an overused expression |
| prolific | producing a great deal of something |
| wan | sickly pale or faint |
| aesthetic | artistic |
| charisma | a special quality of leadership |
| recipients | a person who receives something |
| emphatically | forcefully |
| paradoxes | a statement that seems to say contradictory things |
| conceived | to imagine or develop as an idea |
| aura | a distinctive quality surrounding a person |
| qualms | an uneasiness |
| zealous | intensely devoted |
| impediments | a speech disorder |
| zephyr | a gentle wind |
| mediocre | average |
| reactionary | advocating a return to an earlier condition |
| fabricated | to build or manufacture |
| stamina | vigor |
| opportune | right for the purpose |
| innate | inborn |
| recourse | a person looked to for help |
| mutable | capable of change |
| compliance | the act of adapting |
| indestructible | not capable of being destroyed |
| prevalent | widespread |
| compatible | able to get along |
| perception | an observation |
| axiom | a statement assumed to be true |
| inanimate | dull |
| militant | aggressive in support of a belief or cause |
| transitory | passing quickly |
| incentive | motivation |
| encompass | to contain or include |
| postulate | an assumption |
| stringent | tight in finances or credit |
| implacable | relentless |
| retributions | something given to make up for a wrong done |
| pivotal | on which something turns or depends |
| transcend | to surpass the limits of |
