| A | B |
|---|
| abominable | extremely repugnant or offensive; very unpleasant to experience SYN: repulsive, detestable |
| abscond | to run away secretly; to escape SYN: flee, break out |
| castigate | to criticize someone's behavior severely SYN: reprimand, chastise |
| comatose | in a coma; unable to function SYN: spent, exhausted |
| consolidate | unite business activities; combine something into a single mass SYN: merge, combine |
| despondent | extremely unhappy and discouraged SYN: hopelkess, dejection |
| destitution | extreme poverty SYN: penury, hardship |
| eddy | a small whirl; to flow against the main current SYN: whirlpool, vortex |
| inopportune | happening at a bad time, moment or inconvenient time SYN: ill-timed, mistimed |
| nonchalance | going about something in a casual manner SYN: lack of concern, casualness |
| primordial | existing at the beginning of time; earliest stage of development SYN: primeval, prehistoric |
| rudimentary | existing at an elementary level; not fully developed SYN: basic, undeveloped |
| sonnet | a 14-lined rhyming poem with set structure SYN: verse, elegy |
| tantamount | equivalent to a particular thing in effect, outcome, or value SYN: equal, synonymous |
| turgid | pompous, boring, and overcomplicated; swollen and overflowing SYN: dull, pretentious |
