A | B |
accentuate | to give emphasis or prominence to |
alliteration | repetition of an initial sound |
analogy | similarity in some respects |
antibody | creates immunity to illness |
aspire | to be ambitious |
bambozzle | to deceive or cheat by trickery |
bizarre | very odd in manner |
boisterous | noisy and unruly |
boycott | to refuse to buy or sell |
camouflage | a disguise or concealment |
chronology | events arranged in the order of occurrence |
commemorate | to honor the memory of |
cower | to crouch or huddle up |
decorum | propriety and good tastein behavior or dress |
deduction | subtraction; reasoning |
deign | to deem worthy; to condescend |
despondent | hopeless, dejected |
dialogue | conversation |
divulge | to make known |
eclectic | composed of various materials |
ellipse | a plane curve such that the sums of the distances of each point in its periphery from two fixed points, the foci, are equal. |
embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports. |
enthusiastic | full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent |
exponent | person or thing that expounds, explains, or interprets |
exult | to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; |
fallacy | a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc. |
flourish | to be in a vigorous state; thrive |
formidable | causing fear, apprehension, or dread: |
gargoyle | a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal. |
guerilla | a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids |
guru | a leader in a particular field |
heritage | something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot or portion: |
hieroglyphic | designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, |
hologram | a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser |
hypocrisy | a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess. |
immune | protected from a disease or the like, as by inoculation |
impertinent | intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil: |
inference | the act of concluding or deciding, draw as a conclusion |
introspection | a looking into one's own mind, feelings |
jaunty | lighthearted and merry |