| A | B |
|---|
| accost | to approach and speak first to, often in a challenging or agressive way |
| auspicious | promising success, favorable |
| countenance | calm expression, facial expression |
| decadent | the process of becoming or the quality or state of being in decline or declining |
| expository | a composition (writing) that explains |
| facade | a false, superficial, or artificial appearance |
| fulcrum | the support about which a lever turns |
| gala | a gay celebration, festivity |
| inadvertent | unintentional |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| insinuate | to introduce gradually or in a subtle, indirect or disguised way |
| lethargic | the quality or state of being lazy or indifferent |
| militant | aggressively active especially for a cause |
| morbid | charactrized by gloomy or wnwholesome ideas or feelings |
| nomenclature | a system of terms used in a particular science, discipline, or art |
| pensive | musing, suggestive of sad thoughtfulness, melancholy |
| plagiarism | to steal and pass off as one's own work, the work of another |
| potential | something that can be developed or become actual |
| slovenly | untidy, especially in dress or person |
| tacit | expressed without words or speech |
