| A | B |
|---|
| august | noble, imposing |
| conduit | a passage |
| contrite | sorry for something one has done |
| coterie | a select group of people with a common interest |
| curmudgeon | a bad-tempered or mean person |
| despondent | sad, dejected, in low spirits |
| desultory | jumping from one thing to another with no plan, purpose or logical connection |
| ensconce | to hide safely |
| hegemony | authority or control, especially of one state over another within a confederation |
| maraud | to rove and raid; to pillage |
| nemesis | retribution or just punishment |
| prognosticate | to foretell |
| puerile | childish, silly, immature |
| putative | supposed, ammused |
| splenetic | bad-tempered, spiteful |
| stultify | . to make someone or something appear absurd, foolish, contradictory |
| supercilious | arrogantly disdainful or contemptuous |
| vapid | dull; uninteresting; insipid |
| wrest | to turn or twist something |
| zeitgeist | the spirit of the age; the attitudes or viewpoint of a specific period |
