| A | B |
|---|
| abate | to make less active or intense |
| abdicate | give up, such as power, as of a monarch or emperor or duties |
| aberration | a state or condition markedly different from the norm |
| abstain | refrain from voting; choose not to consume |
| adversity | a state of misfortune or affliction; a stroke of ill will |
| aesthetic | characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste |
| amicable | friendly; good will |
| anachronistic | chronologically misplaced |
| arid | lacking sufficient water or rainfall |
| asylum | a shelter from danger or hardship; a hospital for mentally incompentent people |
| benevolent | intending or showing kindness; showing or moticvated by sympathy, understanding, and generosity |
| bias | influence in an unfair way |
| boisterous | noisy and lacking in restraint |
| forbearance | good natured tolerance of delay or incompetence; refraining from acting |
| disdain | lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike |
| divergent | tending to move apart in different directions |
| capacious | large in capacity |
| capitulate | to surrender under agreed conditions |
| clairvoyant | perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses; foreseeing the future |
| enervating | causing debilitation |
| hackneyed | repeated too often; overused |
| haughty | having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy |
| hedonist | someone motivated by desire for sensual pleasures |
| impetuous | characterized by undue hast and lack of thought |
| impute | attribute or credit to; attribute |
| intuitive | spontaneously derived from; obtained by intutition |
| brazen | unrestrained by convention or propriety |
| brusque | marked by rate or peremptory shortness |
| camaraderie | quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability |
| convergence | the occurrence of two or more objects coming together |
| deleterious | harmful to living things |
| demagogue | a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices |
| digression | a message that departs from the main subject |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| exemplary | worthy of imitation |
| extenuating | partially excusing or justifying |
| intrepid | invulnerable to fear or intimidation |
| mundane | found in the ordinary course of events; concerned with the world or worldly matters |
| nonchalant | marked by blithe unconcern |
| opulent | rich and superior |
| ostentatious | intended to attract notice and impress others |
| perfidious | tending to betray |
| pragmatic | concerned with practical matters; guided by practical experience rather than theory |
| pretentious | making claim or creating an appearance of importance or distinction |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| rancorous | showing deep-seated resentment |
| sagacity | the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations |
| florid | elaborately or excessively ornamented; inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life |
| spurious | plausible but false |
