| A | B |
|---|
| austere | severe or stern; rigorous; puritanical |
| beneficent | humanitarian; doing good |
| cadaverous | pale, gaunt; corpselike |
| concoct | create; fashion; combine ingredients |
| crass | coarse; crude; vulgar |
| debase | lower in character; to corrupt or demean |
| desecrate | to defile or violate; contaminate |
| disconcert | to confuse; to upset; to rattle |
| grandiose | majestic; bombastic |
| inconsequential | trifling; unimportant; trivial |
| infraction | violation; breaking a law |
| mitigate | to make milder or softer; to lessen |
| pillage | to ravage or plunder |
| prate | to talk a great deal in aimless fashion; chatter |
| punctilious | precise; scrupulous |
| redoubtable | inspiring awe; formidable; fearsome |
| reprove | to find fault with; chide; chastise |
| restitution | compensation; reimbursement |
| stalwart | sturdy; stout; valiant |
| vulnerable | open to attack; defenseless; exposed |
