| A | B |
|---|
| acrimony | bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility |
| affinity | attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship |
| ambivalent | having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive |
| cessation | a stopping, either, final or temporary |
| emaciated | very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny |
| enclave | a distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory |
| engender | to bring into being, to produce |
| exacerbate | to make more severe, bitter, or violent |
| illicit | not allowed, improper, or unlawful |
| indigenous | naturally living or growing in a certain area; native |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless |
| infatuated | filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire |
| insatiable | never satisfies; greedy |
| poignant | painfully moving, affecting, or touching |
| proselytize | to convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause |
