| A | B |
|---|
| brusque | abrupt, blunt |
| demagogue | a leader who promises false claims in order to gain power |
| cajole | to persuade through flattery |
| ennui | boredom |
| anomalous | abnormal, irregular |
| contrive | to bring about as as the result of a scheme or plan |
| disabuse | set right in ideas or thinking |
| arbiter | one having power to decide a matter at issue;judge;umpire |
| bizarre | extremely strange unusual |
| castigate | to punish severely |
| aspersion | a damaging statement |
| vouchsafe | to give or furnish condescendingly |
| megalomania | a delusion marked by a feeling of power |
| surreptitios | stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation |
| transmute | to transform |
| immutable | constant, not subject to change |
| transgress | to go beyond a limit or boundry |
| heinous | very wicked, offensive, hateful |
| insurgent | one who rebels against authority |
| fetter | anything tht confines or restrains |
| sinecure | a postition requiring little or no work |
| vicarious | experienced by one person in place of another |
