| A | B |
| acquiesce | to give in peacefully |
| chastise | to scold severly |
| augment | to make larger |
| condone | to look over or pardon bad behavior |
| coalesce | to mix or come together from great differences |
| banal | common place and state; overused |
| terse | shortened, to the point of rudeness |
| euphemism | using a nice word instead of an offensive or honest word |
| hackneyed | overused; common place |
| hyperbole | wild exaggeration |
| laconic | using as few words as possible |
| articulate | speak in a very clear, effective way |
| cide | kill |
| frat | brother |
| hypo | under |
| derm | skin |
| corpus | body |
| amare | to love |
| benedicere | to bless |
| geo | earth |