| A | B |
|---|
| insidious | secretly treacherous, wily |
| digress | depart temporarily from the main subject |
| malingers | pretends to be ill |
| meticulous | extremely careful about details |
| deferential | respectful courteous, giving in to another's wishes |
| obtuse | slow to understand |
| tedious | tiresome because of length or dullness |
| voluminous | of enough material to fill |
| dogma | authoritative doctrines or beliefs |
| apparition | act of appearing or becoming invisible |
| palpable | able to be touched, felt or handled |
| derivative | not original; based on something else |
| literalist | those who take words at their exact meaning |
| insolence | rudeness, boldness; contemptuous |
| triviality | of little note, not worthy; insignificant |
| statistics | the science of collecting and arranging facts about a particular subject in the form of numbers |
| psychology | science dealing with the mind and with mental and emotional processes |
| scab | someone who crosses the picket line of a strike to work |
| eugenics | the science of improving the human soecies through genetic control |
| suffice | to be adequate; meet the needs of |
| insatiable | constantly wanting more |
| slovenly | untidy |
| dominion | power to rule |
| increment | increase, as in a series |
| countenance | approve; tolerate |
| abject | miserable; wretched |
| beguile | charm or delight |
| brutal | cruel and without feeling; savage; violent |
| wanton | senseless; unjustified |
| cunning | skilllful in deception; crafty; sly |
| poise | balance; stability |
| rueful | feeling or showing someone sorrow or pity |
| luminary | giving off light |
| repose | state of rest |
| degenerate | morally corrupt; debased; or to deteriorate |
| chronicles | historical account of events arranged in order of time without interpretation or analysis |
