| A | B |
| banal | commonplace, trite |
| benevolence | an act of kindness |
| brigade | a group organized for a particular purpose |
| cession | yielding to another |
| diatribe | biting or abusive speech or writing |
| ecstatic | extreme rapturous emotional excitement |
| evident | clear to the vision or understanding |
| hesitate | pause |
| historic | of or relating to history |
| immediately | made or done at once |
| impair | dimish in quality or strength |
| inventor | one who creates or produces for the first time |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| loudspeaker | a device than changes electrical signals and sounds |
| maintenance | to keep in an existing condition |
| perusal | to read or look over attentively |
| premise | basis of an argument, a piece of land |
| prosaic | lacking imagination, dull |
| rhetoric | art of speaking or writing |
| triumph | the joy of a victory or success |