| A | B |
| Foment | rouse; incite |
| quash | suppres; extinquish |
| mitigate | relieve; extenuate |
| assuage | relieve; passive; appease |
| aggrandize | increase; enlarge |
| heterogeneous | mixed |
| hoary | ancient |
| tangential | divergent; different; incidental; acting alone |
| homogenous | uniform; kin; similar |
| unconscionable | unreasonable; excessive |
| monastic | resembling monastary; conventual |
| voluble | talkative; fluent |
| reticent | silent; reluctant |
| turgid | pompous; swollen |
| audacious | adventurous; original |
| latent | dormant; quiescent |
| tawdry | gaudy |
| florid | healthy |
| inchoate | incoherent |
| intrepid | fearlessness; endurance |
| lachrymose | tearful; mournful |
| perspicacious | shrewd; keen |
| sanquine | optimistic; confident |
| inimical | hostile; unfriendly |
| surly | arrogent; sullen |
| stolid | impassive; unemotional |
| ignoble | mean |
| lionize | to treat as if great importance |
| palliate | to ease |
| engender | procreate; produce; originate |
| vex | annoy |
| torpor | apathy; dullness; lethargy |
| polemic | aggressive; contraversial |
| vim | enthusiam; energy |
| guile | strategm; trick |
| invective | vitriol; characterized by abuse |
| euphony | pleasing sound; music |
| cacophony | harsh sound |
| chicanery | trick; deception |
| hyperbole | extravegant exaggeration |