| A | B |
|---|
| digress | (v) to get off the subject |
| ramble | (v) to wander; to write or speak aimlessly, without connecting ideas |
| trite | (adj) unoriginal; hackneyed |
| malicious | (adj) mean and spiteful |
| depravity | (n) wickedness; moral corruption |
| flagrant | (adj) outrageously bad or glaringly offensive |
| notoriety | (n) infamy; widespread bad reputation |
| censorious | (adj) critical |
| censure | (v) to criticize; to blame |
| conviction | (n) strong opinion; the judgment of someone's being guilty of a crime |
| credulous | (adj) readily believing; gullible or naïve |
| dogmatic | (adj) stubbornly opinionated |
| dubious | (adj) doubtful or uncertain; filled with doubt |
| gullible | (adj) easily deceived |
| heresy | (n) an opinion strongly opposed to established beliefs |
| skeptical | (adj) hard to convince or persuade |
| tentative | (adj) not final or definite; experimental; indicating hesitancy or uncertainty |
| grave | (adj) serious |
| lament | (v) to express sorrow; to mourn |
| morose | (adj) gloomy; sullen or bad-tempered |
| pessimism | (n) tendency to look on dark side; gloomy frame of mind |
| remorse | (n) sadness or regret; guilt |
| somber | (adj) dark and depressing; gloomy |
| arbiter | (n) one who decides in a dispute |
| arbitrary | (adj) determined randomly |
| anarchy | (n) lack of government and law; complete disorder |
| authoritarian | (n/adj) (like) a tyrant; supporting authority rather than individual freedom |
| autonomy | (n) independence; right to self-government |
| hierarchy | (n) arrangement in order of rank |
| submissive | (adj) yielding or submitting to another's authority |
| subordinate | (adj) submissive; inferior or of lower status |
| usurp | (v) to take and keep, illegally and by force, political power |
