| A | B |
|---|
| amenity | agreeable ways or manners; the quality of being agreeable or pleasant |
| anathema | a vigorous denunciation; one who is intensely disliked |
| atypical | unusual or abnormal; odd |
| balky | refusing to proceed in an expected direction |
| bourgeois | a person with the traits or viewpoints of the bourgeoisie |
| concert | agreement in purpose or feeling, consensus |
| confluence | a coming together |
| corpulence | state of being very fat |
| dirge | funeral hymn, lament |
| disconcerting | upsetting, frustrating |
| endemic | peculiar to or a trait of a group or area |
| focus | to concentrate |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment, mirth |
| indict | to charge or to accuse |
| latent | not visible, dormant |
| monumental | massive, very great, very important |
| myriad | a very large and indefinite number |
| oscillating | moving back and forth, swinging, varying |
| pithy | concise and meaningful |
| premeditated | thought out beforehand |
| presage | something that foreshadows a future event; foreknowledge of the future |
| quixotic | idealistic but impractical |
| reserve | self-restraint |
| stasis | motionlessness, stagnation |
| warranted | justified |
