| A | B |
|---|
| trousers | never jeans or cargo pants. These, in another age, were called slacks |
| devaluation | The removal or lessening of something's value |
| avaricious | greedy; grasping |
| defiant | resistant; challenging of authority |
| furtive | careful and quiet so as not to be noticed |
| imperious | arrogant; proud |
| jubilant | rejoicing; triumphant |
| listless | lacking energy or spirit |
| orthodox | very strict about established ways |
| resplendent | bright, dazzling |
| unintelligible | unable to be understood; unclear |
| indomitable | difficult or impossible to defeat |
| annihilation | total destruction |
| reconciliation | The reestablishment of friendly relations |
| inexplicable | Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for |
| dispirited | dejected, discouraged, gloomy |
| cohesion | uniting, or sticking together |
| emaciated | bony: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| raucous | unpleasantly loud and harsh |
| clamorous | noisy, loud in manner that attracts attention |
