| A | B |
|---|
| allege | to declare or assert |
| arraign | to call before a court, summon to trial |
| bequeath | to give or bestow in one's will |
| intestate | bequeath RW - without a will |
| probate | bequeath RW - testing by the court |
| disburse | to pay out, expend (money) |
| reimburse | disburse RW - pay someone back |
| bourse | disburse RW - Paris stock exchange |
| bursar | disburse RW - a college treasurer |
| encroach | to intrude, trespass |
| invade | encroach RW - move in like a hostile army, disregarding the rights and wishes of the victim |
| infringe | encroach RW - to violate someone's rights or privileges, especially in a patent |
| presume | encroach RW - to take it upon oneself to say or do something not ordinarily permissible |
| arrogate | encroach RW - to seize a privilege or right boldly |
| exonerate | to clear from blame or guilt |
| absolve | exonerate RW - to release a person from the consequence by requiring penance or granting forgiveness |
| acquit | exonerate RW - to clear a person after his innocence is proved |
| exculpate | exonerate RW - to free a person from blame either because he was not guilty or because he was justified in what he did |
| incriminate | to involve or implicae in a crime |
| discrimination | incriminate RW - skill or prejudice in observing differences |
| recrimination | incriminate RW - counteraccusation |
| actuary | an insurance analyst and statistician |
| actuate | actuary RW - to put something in action |
| actualize | actuary RW - to carry out a plan or dream |
| activate | actuary RW - begin using something officially |
| counteract | actuary RW - to act against something |
| alibi | the claim of having been elsewhere when an offense was committed |
| debenture | interest-bearing bond, voucher of indebtedness |
| debit | debenture RW - a sum that you owe |
| deficit | debenture RW - the amount by which a sum of money falls short of what is expected, needed, or owed |
| increment | an increase (usually at specific intervals) |
| appreciation | increment RW |
| libel | written or printed defamation |
| defamation | libel RW - consists of false and malicious attacks on someone's character or reputation |
| slander | libel RW - spoken defamation, false report, or damaging statements |
| calumny | libel RW - defamation, the making of false or malicious misrepresentations, either written, spoken, or otherwise expressed |
| derogation | libel RW |
| disparagement | libel RW |
| litigation | a lawsuit, or legal disputation |
| litigious | litigation RW - a person who likes to start or prolong a lawsuit whenever a litigable problem arises |
| option | a choice or a right of choice |
| prerogative | option RW |
| slovency | ability to meet all fincancial obligations |
| liabilities | slovency RW - dangers one must face, especially sums of money that one must or may have to pay |
| fiscal | slovency RW - the financial year, which begins some time other than January 1 |
| bereavement | loss or desolation, especially by death |
| bereave | bereavement RW - Old English word meaning to rob |
| condolence | formal expression of sympathy |
| compassion | condolence RW - pity or sympathy, with an urge to help in some way |
| commiseration | condolence RW - strong sympathy expressed in a more personal, more intimate, and less formal or distant manner than condolence |
| dirge | a funeral hymn, a song or poem of grief |
| requiem | dirge RW - a musical composition or a dirge for the repose of the dead |
| Requiem Mass | dirge RW - a religious service for the dead |
| obituary | dirge RW - a death notice, usually in a newspaper, with a short biography |
| necrology | dirge RW - a list of persons who have died |
| epitaph | a tombstone inscription |
| mausoleum | epitaph RW - a large tomb built above ground |
| sepulcher | epitaph RW - a tomb somewhat less imposing than a mausoleum |
| cenotaph | epitaph RW - empty tomb that is a monument honoring a person buried elsewhere |
| sarcophagus | epitaph RW - a stone coffin, especially one with a carving or inscription on it |
| interment | burial |
| cremation | interment RW - reducing a body to ashes |
| bequeath | interment RW - to donate your body to medical schools for dissection and research |
| disinter | interment RW - to remove a body from the ground after burial |
| exhume | interment RW - to remove a body from the ground after burial |
