| A | B |
|---|
| Zealous | Ardent; enthusiastic, fervent |
| Volatile | inconstant; fickle; explosive |
| Vitriolic | caustic; bitterly scathing |
| Vernacular | the standard native language of a country or locality; or the non-standard or substandared |
| Verdant | Green with Vegetation |
| Verbatim | Word for Word |
| Usury | Lending Money at an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest |
| Cognition | awareness; perception |
| Incognito | With one's real name, character, or rank concealed |
| Incognizant | Unaware |
| COG | to get to know |
| Replete | Plentifully supplied |
| Replenish | To provide a new supply for; fill again |
| Deplete | to use up or exhaust |
| Plete | to fill |
| Agitate | to upset or disturb |
| Aggressive | inclined to move or act in a hostile fashion; assertive; bold |
| Adverse | hostile; opposed; contrary to one's interest or welfare |
| Adhere | to stick; to be devoted as a follower or supporter |
| Adaptation | anything that is changed or changes to become suitable for a new or special situation |
| Abstract | Summary; to summarize; to take away; not easily understood; considered apart from concrete existance |
| Abhor | to regard with horror or loathing; despise |
| Antagonize | to bother; to incur the dislike of |
| Arid | dry; parched by the heat |
| Arbitrary | determined by whim; based on or subject to individual discretion or judgement |
| Arrogant | overbearingly proud; haughty; conceited |
| Articulate | to pronounce distinctly and carefully; to utter speech sounds; well spoken |
| Assent | to express agreement; concur |
| Avert | to turn away; to ward off or prevent |
| JUNCT | to join |
| Adjunct | something attached to another thing but in a dependent or subordinate position |
| Injunction | a command, directive or order |
| Juncture | junction |
| CLUD, CLUS | to shut |
| Inclusive | including everything; comprehensive |
| Preclude | prevent, make impossible |
| Recluse | hermit, one withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and solitude |
| Surfeit | an excessive amount; to feed or supply to fullness or excess; to satirate |
| Tawdry | gaudy and cheap; vulgarly ornamental |
| Titanic | huge; colossal; having a great stature or enormous strength |
| Tome | any book, especially a large scholarly one |
| Trangress | to act in violation (of the law); to go beyond or over (a limit or boundry) |
| Travesty | an exaggerated or grotesque imitation with intent to ridicule |
| Tryst | an agreement between lovers to meet at a certain time or place |
| Belligerent | given to or marked by hostile or aggressive behavior |
| Bestow | to present as a gift or honor, confer |
| Chide | to scold, rebuke, reprimand |
| Commend | praise; to commit to the care of another, entrust |
| Compensation | something given or received as an equivalent or as reparation |
| Complex | involved or intricate, complicated, a whole composed of complex parts, an exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear |
| Comply | to act in accordance with a command, request, rule, or the like |
| ONYM | name |
| Acronym | a word formed by the first letters or syllables of other words |
| Antonym | an opposite |
| Pseudonym | fictitious name; alias |
| THEO | god |
| Polytheism | belief in more than one god |
| Theocracy | any government headed by a religious authority |
| Theology | the study of religion on religious belief |
| Saturnine | gloomy; grave; overcast |
| Sonorous | having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound |
| Stringent | strict, imposing rigorous standards of performance |
| Stultify | to render useless or ineffectual; cripple |
| Subliminal | subconscious, below the threshould of consciousnous |
| Subterfuge | a trick or excuse to gain advantage or to avoid something unpleasant |
| Supercilious | haughty, proud, disdainful, conceited |
| Compress | a machine used for baling cotton; a soft pad of gauze or other material; to press together or force into a smaller space |
| Compulsory | required, obligatory |
| Concise | expressing much in few words, succint |
| Contemplate | to think about or consider carefully |
| Conventional | customary; established by general usage |
| Counteract | to oppose and lesson the effects of |
| Crave | to have an intense desire for |
| MISS, MIT | to send; to let go |
| Demise | death |
| Intermittent | stopping for a time and starting again |
| Manumission | a freeing from slavery |
| Missive | written message or letter |
| Remission | a lessoning of pain, pardon, forgiveness |
| Pristine | perfect, remaining in a pure state, uncorrupted |
| Puerile | childish, immature, juvenile |
| Pugnacious | eager to fight, quarrelsome |
| Ramification | consequence growing out of and often complicating a problem |
| Recalcitrant | disobedient; stubbornly resistant to authority |
| Restive | rowdy, restless, uneasy, difficult to control |
| Sagacity | wisdom; keen intelligence; shrewdness |
| Satiate | to satisfy fully |
| Decisive | conclusive, having the power to settle a dispute or doubt |
| Deface | disfigure; to spoil or mar the surface or appearance of |
| Dejected | depressed; disheartened |
| Delete | to strike out or cancel, to omit |
| Density | the degree to which anything is filled or occupied |
| Deplore | disapprove, to feel or express deep sorrow over |
| Destitute | utterly impoverished; altogether lacking |
| CORD | heart |
| Concord | agreement; harmony |
| Cordial | warm and friendly in manner |
| Discordant | not in agreement; difficult |
| DEMO | people |
| Dema gogue | a popular leader who stirs up the people to furthur his own interests |
| Endemic | prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality or people |
| Epidemic | the rapid spread of disease; widespread |
| Panegyric | elaborate praise |
| Patois | any regional dialect |
| Perfidious | deliberately faithless; traitorous |
| Perfunctory | done or performed routinely and with little interest or care |
| Petulant | irritable; unreasonably ill tempered |
| Pragmatic | practical |
| Prevaracate | to lie; to turn aside from the truth |
| Detract | to take away a desirable part; diminish |
| Dire | having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous; disastrous |
| Disclose | to expose to view; uncover |
| Discord | lack of agreement; dissension |
| Divert | to turn aside; to deflect |
| Dwindle | to become gradually less; waste away |
| Envoy | a messenger or agent sent on a mission |
| CATA | to fall |
| Catalyst | one that precipitates a process without being involved in or changed by the consequences |
| Catapult | an ancient military device used for hurling |
| Cataract | a condition of the eye, causing partial or total blindness; waterfall |
| Catastrophe | calamity; disaster |
| Script | to write |
| Conscript | to draft; to enroll in the military |
| Proscribe | to denounce or condemn |
| Scribe | a public clerk or secretary |
| Transcript | a student's school record |
| Obtuse | slow to comprehend or perceive; blunt; not sharp or pointed |
| Opulence | abundance, lavishness; luxeriance |
| Palatable | acceptable to the taste; agreeable in flavor |
| Nascent | coming into existance; in the process of emerging |
| Niggardly | stingy; unwilling to part with anything |
| Equivalent | equal in value, force, effect or meaning; corresponding |
| Evolve | to develop gradually |
| Expenditure | something that is spent |
| Famished | starving; very hungary |
| Flair | gift; a natural talent |
| Flare | a fire or light used for signaling; a sudden outburst; to burn with a sudden bright light |
| Flaw | something that takes away from or spoils completeness, soundness, or perfection |
| Foresight | care or thought for the future; the ability to know ahead of time what is likely to happen |
| Ambi, amphi | both, two |
| Ambidextrous | able to use both hands equally well |
| Ambivalent | having conflicting feellings |
| Amphibious | capable of living or operating on land and in the water |
| VOC | to speak |
| Advocate | to speak in favor of; support; urge |
| Invoke | to call upon in prayer for aid and protection; to call into use for support |
| Revocation | the act or state of being cancelled |
| Vociferous | clamorous; characterized by a loud out cry |
| Mesmerize | hypnotize; to affect deeply |
| Misnomer | a name that is not fitting or suitable |
| Mitigate | to make milder, less severe, or less painful |
| Morose | gloomy, sullen, bad tempered |
| Motley | a costume worn by a clown or court jester; diverse, made up of different kinds |
| Mundane | practical, common, ordainary, of this world; earthly |
