| 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 |