| A | B |
|---|
| gamut | range |
| heterogeneous | dissimilar |
| perspicacious | acutely perceptive, shrewd |
| analogous | comparable, similar |
| maladjusted | poorly adjusted, disturbed |
| phenomenon | unusual occurence |
| mortality | death |
| decade | ten years |
| susceptible | easily affected, unusually liable |
| neurotic | suffering from a nervous disorder |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| enunciate | to utter, to proclaim |
| inordinate | excessive |
| irascible | irritable |
| introspective | looking into one's own feelings |
| perpetuate | to cause to continue |
| mandate | an authoritative order or comand |
| compensatory | serving to pay back |
| neutralize | to counteract |
| catastrophic | disastrous |
| anthropologist | an expert in the study of races, beliefs, customs, etc. |
| artifact | an object made by hand, rather than a thing as it occurs in nature |
| bizarre | odd, peculiar, strange, weird |
| fetish | an object that is thought to have magic powers |
| inanimate | lifeless |
| imperative | urgent , necessary, compulsory |
| imprudent | unwise, not caring |
| prohibition | the act of forbiding certain behavior |
| taboo | forbidden by custom or religious practice |
| taint | contamination, undesirable subustance that spoils something |
| abhor | to detest, to despise |
| absurd | ridiculous |
| bigot | a person who is intolerant of other people |
| contemptous | expressing a feeling that something is worthless |
| universal | present everywhere |
| vulnerable | capable of being injured |
| entreaty | appeal, plea |
| tradition | custom that has been handed down |
| originate | begin, arise |
| inviolable | safe (from destruction) |
