| A | B |
| subordinate or assistant | adjunct |
| to hint at or to refer to indirectly | allude |
| reserved | aloof |
| blessing | benediction |
| delayed | belated |
| to scold or rebuke severely | berate |
| to produce | begat |
| livliness or willlingness | alacrity |
| no longer used or useful or very old | antiquated |
| to give life or motion to | animate |
| something out of its proper place and time | anachronism |
| exaggerated portrayal of one's features | caricature |
| to complain in a nagging way | carp |
| self-confidence | aplomb |
| to recommend | advocate |
| a hiding place or things hidden | cache |
| a bloody or extensive slaughter | carnage |
| to warn or caution | admonish |
| anything causing great suffering | affliction |
| feeling great dismay or horror | aghast |
| to combine | amalgamate |
| trickery or the use of clever but tricky talk to deceive or evade | chicanery |
| universal or wide-ranging | catholic |
| to irrirate as if by friction | chafe |
| to possess a great appeal or attraction for others | charisma |
| to make a god of or to worship as a god | deify |
| to waste time | dawdle |
| to mislead or fool | delude |
| to take out or cross out | delete |
| one sent on a special mission | emissary |
| to attract by offering a reward | entice |
| to escape notice or get away from | elude |
| an occupant or inhabitant | denizen |
| to stop | desist |
| death or a ceasing to exist | demise |
| a great downpour or a flood or an overwhelming rush of anything | deluge |
| mentally ill or insane | demented |
| pertaining to the belief in the quality of all men | egalitarian |
| to form a mental picture | envisage |
| unashamed boldness | effrontery |
| large structure | edifice |
| in high spirits | elated |
| to draw or bring out | educe |
| weird or mysterious | eerie |
| independent being or real independent existance | entity |
| to wipe out or to destroy | eradicate |
| a moral deterioration | decadence |
| lonely or forlorn or uninhabited | desolate |
| to paint coarsely or unskillfully | daub |
| carefree and self-confident or elegant or gracious | debonair |