| A | B |
|---|
| coherent | holding or sticking together; make a logical whole; comprehensible |
| tenable | capable of being held or defended |
| cavort | to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
| strategem | a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end |
| recumbent | in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting |
| eschew | to avoid, shun, keep away from |
| credence | belief; mental acceptance |
| exigency | urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency |
| atrophy | (n) The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline of failure; (v) to waste away |
| germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
| congeal | to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
| invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
| insatiable | so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
| substantiate | to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
| largesse | generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
| belabor | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| utopian | founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical |
| verbiage | language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression |
| murky | dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision |
| articulate | (v)to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; (adj,) expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed |
| incarcerate | to imprison, confine, jail |
| jocular | humorous, jesting, jolly, joking |
| acuity | sharpness particularly of mind or senses |
| reputed | according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation; (part.) alleged |
| delinate | to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially |
| nuance | a subtle or slight variation [as in color, meaning, quality], delicate gradation or shade or difference |
| depraved | marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles |
| figment | a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion |
| testy | easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
| neophyte | a new convert, beginner, novice |
| diatribe | a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
