| A | B |
| expiate | to make amends, atone |
| expedite | to make easy, make faster |
| abominate | to have intense dislike for |
| ascribe | to assign or refer, attribite |
| adventitious | resulting from chance, accidental, not essential |
| enjoin | to direct, order, to prohibit |
| commiserate | to sympathize with, have pity for |
| acculturation | modification of social patterns, traits by contacting another social group |
| circuitous | roundabout, not direct |
| ferment | great excitement or turbulence, to produce alcohol |
| vitriolic | bitter, sarcatic, highly caustic |
| wheedle | use coaing or flattery to gain something |
| perculate | to steal something, to take for one's own use |
| proclivity | natural inclination or tendency |
| nominal | existing only in name, too small to be taken seriously |
| seditious | resistant to authority, purpose of overthrowing govt. |
| tenuous | thin, lacking clarity, not supported |
| noncommital | not decisive or definite |
| sangfroid | composure or coolness, in trying circumstances |
| inadvertent | resulting from lack of attention, accidental |