| A | B |
|---|
| aesthetic | of or relating to a sense of the beautiful; artistic |
| animosity | long-standing or deep-seated hostility; enmity |
| appellation | a name or title |
| cadaverous | suggestive of death; emaciated or gaunt (looks like someone who is starving to death) |
| contrite | repentant for ones sins or inadequacies; penitent |
| deplorable | deserving severe reproach; grievous; lamentable (very bad) |
| depredation | the act of preying on someone; plunder |
| enigmatic | mysterious, puzzling, ambiguous, inexplicable, cryptic |
| expatiate | to speak or write at length |
| hedonist | one who holds that pleasure is the chief good |
| impassive | lacking or not subject to emotion; displaying no emotion; expressionless; without motion, still |
| incredulous | skeptical, disbelieving; expressing disbelief |
| ineradicable | incapable of being eradicated (wiped out, removed) |
| languor | lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness; oppressive quiet or stillness |
| laxity | lacking in rigor, strictness, or firmness; slackness |
| malignant | showing great malevolence; evil; highly injurious; pernicious |
| nonchalant | : casually unconcerned; cooly indifferent |
| palpitate | to quiver or flutter; to beat more quickly than normal (said of the heart); to throb |
| redolence | fragrance, aroma; but also suggestive or reminiscent of something |
| ruminate | to meditate at length; to reflect on |
| scabious | having a contagious skin disease caused by mites; or covered in scabs |
| stagnate | to fail to progress or develop; to be stuck in a rut, so to speak |
| supercilious | haughtily disdainful; arrogantly scornful |
| usurp | to seize unlawfully and sometimes by force to power, rights, or authority of another or of others |
| visage | countenance, aspect, appearance; the face or expression of a person |
