| A | B |
| iconoclastic | attacking cherished traditions |
| indemnify | make secure against loss |
| imbroglio | complicated situation |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| impalpable | imperceptible; intangible |
| jaundiced | prejudiced; envious; yellowed |
| jettison | throw owverboard |
| jocose | given to joking |
| jocund | merry |
| juggernaut | irresistible crushing force |
| ken | range of knowledge |
| inetic | producing motion |
| kismet | fate |
| knell | tolling of a bell |
| knoll | little round hill |
| lachrymose | producing tears |
| laconic | using few words |
| largess | liberal giving; generous gift |
| lascivious | lustful |
| lassitude | veariness; debility |
| fetid | malodorous |
| filial | pertaining to a son or daughter |
| flacid | flabby |
| foment | stir up; insitigate |
| forbearance | patience |
| fortuitous | accidental; by chance |
| gratuitous | given freely; unwarranted |
| guileless | without deceit |
| hegemony | dominance especially of one nation over another |
| heinous | atrocious; hatefully bad |
| hermetic | obscure and mysterious; occult |
| hubris | arrogance; excessive self-conceit |
| humus | substance formed by decaying vegetable matter |
| cogent | convincing |
| collusion | conspiring in a fraudulent scheme |
| comely | attractive; agreeable |
| concord | harmony |
| confluence | flowing or coming together |
| maraud | rove in search of plunder |
| martinet | one who issues orders |
| masticate | chew |
| maudlin | effusively sentimental |
| megalomania | mania for doing grandiose things |