| A | B |
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| oscillate | to fluctuate, waver, vibrate, vacillate |
| penitent | remoreseful, regretful, rueful, sorry |
| obsequious | fawning, servile, sycaphantic, mealymouthed |
| attenuate | to thin out, dilute, water down |
| foible | a chortcoming, failing, flaw, defect, quirk |
| luminous | radiant, bright, refulgent, lustrous |
| cavil | to nitpick, quibble, carp |
| decimate | to ravage, wreak havoc, devastate |
| obtuse | dull-witted, stupid, dumb, thick; mild |
| sporatic | irregular, intermittent, spasmodic |
| inure | to harden, accustom, acclimate |
| rebuff | to spurn, repulse, reject, a setback |
| concatenation | a sweries, sequence, conjunction |
| benign | benevolent, salutary, salubrious |
| shambles | a mess, disaster area; a slaughterhouse |
| forgo | to dowithout, refrain from, renounce |
| charlatan | a fraud, quack, mountebank, impostor |
| concomitant | attendant, accompanying, corollary |
| peremptory | high-handed, dictatorial; unconditional |
| fraught | full of, loaded with, charged with |
| askance | distrustfully, suspiciously, skeptically |
| reconnoiter | to scout, see how the land lies |
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