| A | B |
|---|
| loquacious | very talkative, garrulous |
| metamorphosis | marked change of shape or appearance |
| nihilism | a doctrine holding that all values are baseless |
| obsequious | fawning, full of servile compliance |
| sanguine | passionate, cheerful, of blood |
| soliloquy | dramtic discourse when character speaks as alone |
| supercilious | feeling or showing haughty disdain, proud |
| unctuous | exaggerated or insincere earnestness, slippery |
| usurp | to take over without right |
| vortex | place or center regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it |
| totalitarianism | A form of government in which political authority exercizes contral over all of life |
| nomenclature | A system of names used in an art or science |
| omnipotent | Having unlimited power, authority or force |
| pecuniary | Of or relating to money |
| reciprocal | Interchanged, given or owed to each other |
| respiration | The act of breathing |
| winnow | To sort or select; separate the wheat from the chaff |
| ziggurat | A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians |
| thermodynamics | Branch of physics deals with heat and other energy |
| tautology | Needless repetition of the same sense in different words. An empty logical statement. |
