| A | B |
|---|
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked, evil, villainous |
| palpable | able to be touched or recieved, tangible |
| picayune | of relatively little worth or value |
| plagerize | to steal the work of another person and passing it off as your own |
| prestidigitation | sleight-of-hand artist |
| sarcophagus | a large coffin usually, though not necessarily found in a tomb |
| scapegoat | one who becomes the butt of another's misdeeds or to whom some sort of blame or guilt is transformed |
| sycophant | one who demeans himself as a "yes-man" for selfish, personal reasons |
| syndrome | a cluster of symptoms occuring together and indicating that a patient has a particular disease |
| trivial | found everywhere, common, insignificant |
| bombast | estravagant, artificial language padded with words |
| catholic | a common denominator unifying various divisions of the Christian faith |
| delirium | menatl wandering, confusion, disorganized speech, or frenzied emotional excitement |
| ecumenical | any type of worldwide unity as well as the specific unity of the whole of a body of churches |
| laconic | using language sparingly, getting directly to the point |
| maudlin | tearfully sentimental, crying at the slightest provocation |
| ostracize | to ban, to exclude from a group by popular consent |
| sincere | true, without, deceit, honest, unadulerated |
| spurious | counterfeit |
| akimbo | a position in which a person's hands are placed on the hips with the elbows extended outward |
| blatant | things seen as well as heard to mean too conspicuous or showy |
| egregious | remarkably bad |
| gauche | clumsy or awkward especially in social situations |
| gratuitous | free, withour charge |
| peer | a group of people on par with you in some areas |
| sinister | an evil force or an evil motivation |
| travesty | a ludicrous distortion, making a mockery of |
| venal | able to be bough off, mercenary, corrupt |
| venial | pardonable |
| vixen | a shrewish, ill-tempered woman |
| bane | intending to do you some harm |
| bursar | a person who handles financial matters |
| desultory | one who leaps from one subject to another without order or rationale |
| iconoclast | one who attacks cherished institutions or scorns traditional ideasls as being shams |
| innuendo | an institution both remote and derogatory |
| propitiate | to pacify, to cause to become more favorable, to win, or to regain good will |
| proselyte | to denote a person converted to a new religion or political philosophy |
| stalemate | a deadlock |
| tacit | unspoken, unvoiced |
| vicarious | a substitution, either real or imaginary |
| abyss | a bottomless gulf, deep, immeasurable space |
| acolyte | assistant or helper |
| adroit | dexterous in the use of the body or mind |
| denouement | the conclusion in which the author makes known of the outcome of the situations he has created |
| harridan | vicaious, scolding old woman |
| humor | one's disposition |
| iota | a very small amount or jot |
| platitude | trite or insipid remark, a truism, a cliche, all of which are certainly flat as far as originality of thought and expression are concerned |
| procrustean | to designate a point of view that insists upon conformity to a rigid pattern regardless of individual indifference, inflexible |
