| A | B |
|---|
| aberrant | deviant |
| abrogate | cancel, call off |
| abstemious | exercising monderation; self-restraint |
| aggregation | gathered together; accumulated |
| alacrity | cheeful promptness; eagerness |
| bacchanalian | drunken |
| baleful | menacing; deadly |
| beguiled | to deceive; cheat; charm; coax |
| beleaguer | besiege or attack; harass |
| bellicose | warlike |
| cacophony | harsh or discordant sound; dissonance |
| calumny | slander |
| capitulated | surrendered |
| cathartiac | purgative; inducing a figurative cleansing |
| cavil | disagree; nit-pick make frivolous objections |
| decimate | destroy a great number |
| deferential | courteous; respectful or ingratiating |
| deferred | yield; delay |
| demur | to take exception; object |
| denigrate | blacken someone's reputation or character |
| occlude | shut; close |
| odious | hateful; vile |
| oligarchy | government by a privlieged few |
| opprobrium | infamy; vilification |
| ostensible | apparent; showing outwardly; professed |
| parsimonious | stingy |
| paucity | scarcity |
| pecuniary | obsessed by money |
| pedantic | bookish |
| pejorative | megative in connotation; having a tendency ot make worse; disparaging |
| recidivism | habitual return to crime |
| recondite | abstruse; profound; secret |
| recombent | reclining; lying down |
| redolent | suggestive of an odor; fragrant |
| redoubtable | formidable; causing fear |
| sardonic | sneering; sarcastic; cynical |
| sartorial | tailored |
| saturnine | sullen; sardonic; gloomy |
| sedition | resistance to authority |
| sedulous | diligent; persevering |
