| A | B |
|---|
| Austere | severe, or stern in manner |
| Beneficent | performing acts of kindness |
| Cadaverous | pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse |
| Concoct | to prepare by combining ingredients |
| Crass | coarse, stupid |
| Debase | To lower in character, quality or value |
| Desecrate | To pollute |
| Disconcert | to confuse |
| Grandiose | grand in an impressive way |
| Inconsequential | unimportant |
| Infraction | a breaking of a law |
| Mitigate | to make milder or softer |
| Pillage | to rob of goods by open force |
| Prate | to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless manner |
| Redoubtable | inspiring fear or awe |
| Punctilious | Very careful and exact |
| Reprove | to find fault with, scold |
| Restitution | the act of restoring someone |
| Stalwart | Strong and sturdy |
| Vulnerable | capable of being wounded or attacked |
| Acrimonious | bitter in temper |
| Bovine | resembling a cow or an ox |
| Consternation | Dismay, confusion |
| Corpulent | fat |
| disavow | to deny responsibility for or connection with |
| dispassionate | impartial, free from emotion |
| dissension | disagreement |
| dissipate | to cause to disappear |
| expurgate | to censor |
| gauntlet | a dare |
| Hypothetical | an assumption or guess |
| ignoble | mean |
| impugn | to call into question, to challenge |
| intemperate | immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement |
| odium | hatred |
| perfidy | faithless |
| relegate | to transfer, or assign |
| squeamish | inclined to nausea |
| subservient | submissively obedient |
| susceptible | open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance |
| Abate | decrease |
| Adulation | praise excessively |
| Anathema | an object of intense dislike |
| astute | shrewd, crafty |
| Avarice | a greedy desire |
| culpable | guilty |
| dilatory | slow, tardy |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| equivocate | to be deliberately vague |
| evanescent | light and airy, vanishing |
| irresolute | unable to make up one's mind |
| nebulous | cloudlike, hazy |
| novice | beginner |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| pretentious | done for show, striving to make a big impression |
| recapitulate | to review a series of facts |
| resuscitate | to revive |
| slovenly | untidy |
| supposition | something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence |
| torpid | inactive, sluggish, dull |
