| A | B |
|---|
| chagrin | strong feelings of embarrassment ; humiliation |
| vacillate | be undecided about something; move in an unstable manner |
| ennui | the feeling of being bored by something tedious |
| caveat | a warning against certain acts |
| palliate | lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of |
| assuage | to soften or calm |
| ecdysiast | a performer who provides sexual entertainment by undressing to music |
| fulminate | to detonate; to explode with a violent report. |
| expurgate | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
| specious | plausible but false |
| turgid | ostentatiously lofty in style |
| avuncular | being or relating to an uncle; like an uncle in kindness or indulgence |
| frenetic | excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion |
| cenotaph | built to honor soldiers who died in a war |
| unctuous | unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech |
| vicissitude | a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something |
| titillate | excite pleasurably |
| moribund | not growing or changing; without force or vitality |
| badinage | frivolous banter |
| sesquipedalian | given to the overuse of long words |
| apotheosis | model of excellence or perfection of a kind |
