| A | B |
|---|
| aberration | a departure or deviation from the norm |
| abjure | to give up, renounce |
| abstemious | moderate, temperate, especially in eating and drinking |
| acme | the highest point, the peak |
| adjure | to command solemnly, often under oath; to entreat or appeal to |
| brobdingnagian | giant -- from the novel "Gulliver's Travels" -- Brobdingnag was a land inhabited by giants |
| candor | fairness, honesty, or frankness |
| coeval | all of the same age or period; contemporary |
| hackneyed | overused or trite |
| halcyon | happy, tranquil, or idyllic |
| inundate | to flood or deluge; to overwhelm with a great amount of anything |
| noisome | having a bad odor, foul-smelling, injurious to the health, harmful |
| noxious | injurious, harmful to the health, or unwholesome |
| Comestible | the ten-dollar word for food |
| detestable | hateful, execrable, or odious |
| peregrinate | to travel or walk |
| perfunctory | done merely as form or rountine; superficial |
| prolific | fruitful, abounding, producing many/much |
| salubrious | healthful, wholesome |
| serendipity | luck or good fortune, especially in finding something accidentally |
| superfluous | surplus, excessive |
| turpitude | vileness, depravity |
