| A | B |
|---|
| detriment | something that causes damage, harm, or loss; a disadvantage |
| dexterous | skillful in using tack in actions or speaking; good sense |
| discretion | good judgement or tact in actions or speaking; good sense |
| facetious | humorous; playfully joking; funny |
| gregarious | sociable; enjoying and seeking the company of others; outgoing |
| optimum | best possible; most favorable; most desirable; ideal |
| ostentatious | meant to impress others; flashy; showy |
| scrupulous | careful about moral standards; conscientious; ethical |
| sensory | having to do with seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling; of the senses |
| vicarious | experienced through the imagination; not experienced directly; indirectly |
| Collaborate | to work together on a project; cooperate in an effort |
| despondent | downhearted; hopeless; overwhelmed with sadness |
| instigate | to bring about by moving to action; stir up |
| resilient | able to recover quickly from harm, illness, or misfortune |
| retrospect | reviewing the past; considering past events |
| rudimentary | fundamental; necessary to learn first |
| scoff | to make fun of; mock; refuse to take seriously; to ridicule |
| squelch | to silence or suppress; crush; to hold back |
| venerate | to respect deeply; revere; to honor |
| zealot | a person totally devoted to a purpose or cause |
| ambiguous | able to be interpreted in more than one way; not clear |
| dissident | a person opposed to established ideas or beliefs, especially in politics or religion; a rebel |
| embellish | to decorate; beautify by adding details |
| fritter | to spend or waste a little at a time |
| inadvertent | unintentional; accidental; not intended |
| inane | without sense or meaning; foolish; silly |
| juxtapose | to place close together, especially in order to compare or contrast; side by side |
| lethargy | a great lack of energy; inactivity due to laziness |
| sporadic | happening now and then; occasional; irregular |
| subsidize | to support financially; to pay for |
| berate | to criticize or scold harshly, angrily |
| estrange | to make unsympathetic or unfriendly; alienate; to drive away |
| euphoric | overjoyed; having an intense feeling of well-being; very happy |
| impetuous | done or acting in a hurry, with little thought; impulsive; impulsive |
| infallible | not capable of error or failure; unable to make a mistake; perfect |
| maudlin | tearfully sentimental; overly emotional |
| regress | to return to an earlier, generally worse, condition or behavior; to go backward |
| relinquish | to surrender (something); give (something) up; to yield |
| ubiquitious | existing or seeming to exist everywhere at the same time; found everywhere |
| zeneth | the highest point or condition; peak |
| charlatan | a fake; a person who falsely claims to have some special skill or knowledge; a con artist |
| corroborate | to support; strengthen with further evidence; provide proof of; to confirm |
| disseminate | to spread or scatter widely; distribute |
| diverge | to branch off in different directions from the same starting point; to become different; to go in different directions |
| dormant | inactive; alive but not actively growing, as if asleep |
| hoist | to lift, especially with some mechanical means, like a cable; to raise |
| illicit | illegal; unlawful |
| irrevocable | not able to be canceled or undone; irreversible |
| precipitate | to cause to happen quickly, suddenly, or sooner than expected; to bring on |
| proliferation | a rabid spread or increase |
