| A | B |
|---|
| abash | to embarrass; to cause to lose one's cool |
| accentuate | to stress or emphasize |
| adulate | to show excessive devotion to; to praise excessively |
| adulterate | to make impure or inferior by adding inferior materials |
| alacrity | cheerful promptness; willingness |
| alleviate | to make more bearable; improve |
| allusion | an indirect reference to something |
| ambulatory | able to walk; mobile |
| ameliorate | to make better; to improve |
| amorphous | shapeless; without a set structure |
| amuck | in a wild or undisciplined manner |
| anthropoid | human-like |
| antipathy | hatred; aversion; dislike |
| apathy | lack of interest or caring |
| apathetic | indifferent; uncaring |
| appease | to bring to a state of peace; soothe; pacify |
| assuage | to ease or satisfy |
| audacity | boldness; nerve |
| august | awe-inspiriting; majestic; magnificent |
| baneful | harmful; causing death, destruction, or ruin |
| barrister | lawyer |
| begrudge | to envy |
| beguile | to trick or deceive OR to pleasantly charm |
| bellicose | warlike; violent |
| berate | to scold severely |
| biennial | every two years |
| blandishment | flattery |
| bombastic | wordy or pompous in speech or writing |
| braggadocio | cockiness OR a braggart |
| bucolic | pleasant in a simple, rustic way typical of rural life |
| burgeon | to grow or sprout |
| burnish | to polish |
| cacophonous | sounding discordant; unpleasant to hear; the opposite of euphonious |
| cadaver | corpse, especially one intended for dissection |
| callous | unfeelling; unsympathetic; hard-hearted |
| calumniate | to slander; to make maliciously false statements about; to denigrate |
| calumny | slander; false statements make in injure someone |
| candor | frankness; openness |
| capitulate | to give in; to surrender |
| carrion | dead and decaying flesh |
| cathartic | having a cleansing, purifying effort |
| Cavil | to raise unnecessary or trivial objections |
| celerity | speed; swiftness |
| censor | to remove objectionable material |
| censure | to criticize or blame, especially in a public forum |
| Chagrin | embarrassment; dismay |
| Charlatan | a person who is a quack or a fraud |
| Chicanery | trickery; deception |
| Choleric | hot-tempered |
| Churlish | rude; boorish; vulgar |
