| A | B |
| acrid | bitter, harsh |
| arid | dry, lacking water |
| aesthetic | having to do with artistic beauty |
| ascetic | a person who refrains from indulging in earthly pleasures |
| atheistic | without a belief in any god |
| ambiguous | hard to understand; unclear |
| ambivalent | having conflicting feelings or opinions |
| coalesce | to have different opinions join together; fuse |
| convalesce | to recover from an illness |
| delusion | a false opinion or belief |
| allusion | an indirect reference, often to a character or theme found in literature |
| illusion | something unreal that gives the appearance of being real |
| imprudent | careless; rash |
| impudent | rude; disrespectful |
| indigenous | native |
| indigent | poor; impoverished |
| indignant | angry |
| intimate | suggest; to hint at |
| intimidate | to frighten; to hint at |
| obscure | hard to understand; abstract |
| obtuse | stupid; not clear or precise |
| ponderable | important enough to require a lot of thought |
| ponderous | very heavy or bulky; dull or lifeless |