| A | B |
|---|
| abominable | repugnantly hateful; very unpleasant, detestable, loathsome |
| abscond | to leave secretly and hide |
| capitulate | to surrender |
| castigate | to punish or to subdue by punishment; to criticize with drastic severity |
| comatose | lethargic, unconscious |
| consolidate | to make solid, to unite, or to merge |
| despondency | depression, dejection |
| destitution | state of being extremely poor, in extreme want |
| eddy | a current of air or water moving contrary to the main current (circularly) |
| enfranchise | to give or to bestow something such as the right to vote or citizenship |
| ennoble | to elevate, to raise in rank |
| fecund | capable of reproducing, intellectual productivity |
| inebriation | drunkenness, intoxication |
| inopportune | inconvenient, poorly timed |
| inviolable | secure from violation or from being profaned |
| nonchalance | indifference, a showing of little interest |
| prevarication | evasiveness, lie |
| primordial | original, existing at the beginning (usually relates to time) |
| punctilious | stressing precise following of instructions, details, codes or conduct |
| remonstrate | to protest, to make objections |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles, of a primitive kind; relating to basic skills |
| sonnet | a fourteen line form of poetry |
| tantamount | equivalent in value or significance |
| turgid | swollen |
| vestigial | something in an underdeveloped form |
