| A | B |
|---|
| abate | diminish, decrease, subside, let up |
| adulation | adoration, idolization, hero-worship |
| anathema | malediction, imprecation, abomination |
| astute | shrewd, acute, sagacious, judicious, wily |
| avarice | cupiditym rapacity, acquisitiveness |
| culpable | guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy |
| dilatory | stalling, slow, tardy, laggard |
| egregious | glaring, flagrant, blatant |
| equivocate | to talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, hedge |
| evanescent | ephemeral, transient, transitory |
| irresolute | indecisive, vacillating, wavering |
| nebulous | hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, vague, murky, opaque, indeterminate |
| novice | neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice |
| penury | destitution, want, indigence |
| pretentious | inflated, ostentatious, affected |
| recapitulate | review, summarize, sum up, go over |
| resuscitate | revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate |
| slovenly | unkempt, slatternly, slipshod, lax |
| supposition | assumption, presumption, hypothesis |
| torpid | sluggish, lethargic, otiose, languid |
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