| A | B |
|---|
| abstruse | difficult to understand; recondite; concealed |
| acclaim | praise;salute; hail |
| amass | to collect; gather; accumulate |
| bequeath | to hand down; to give or leave in a will |
| blithe | lighthearted; joyous; glad |
| bombastic | usuing inflated language; pompous |
| circumspect | careful to consider consequences; cautious; prudent |
| collaborate | to work together |
| contaminant | something that causes impurity or deflies or pollutes |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of something; profane |
| desultory | jumping around; aimless; random |
| diminution | diminishment; reduction |
| effigy | a dummy or image of a person |
| emaciated | very thin usually result of starvation; wasting away |
| embroil | to entangle; throw into confusion or strife |
| fraudulent | deceitful; protraying as genuine with an impostor |
| gratuitous | given freely; unwarranted |
| gravity | seriousness; importance |
| hedonist | one who seeks pleasure as the sole aim in life |
| incessant | uninterrupted |
| incorrigible | incapable of being reformed or improved |
| odious | deserving hate or contempt |
| panacea | cure-all; remedy for all ills |
| parochial | limited in range or scope; narrow; provincial |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will; enmity |
