| A | B |
|---|
| Equivocate | To speak or act in a way that allows more than one interpretation. |
| Recapitulate | To review a series of facts. |
| Accrue | To grow or accumulate over time. |
| Debonair | Pleasant/ curteous. |
| Dun | To demand insistently |
| Efficacious | Effective |
| Invective | A strong denunciation. |
| Sedentary | chaaracterized by or calling for continued sitting. |
| Penury | Extreme poverty |
| dowdy | poorly dressed; shabby |
| heresy | an opinion different from accepted belief |
| censurable | deserving of blame or correction |
| corroborate | to confirm, make more certain, verify |
| discursive | passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, nomadic |
| disseminate | to scatter or spread widely |
| gauche | awkward, lacking in social graces |
| specious | deceptive, apparently good or valied but lacking real merit |
| torpid | inactive, sluggish, dormant, lethargic |
| nonplussed | puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss |
| brouhaha | a confused hodgepodge of sounds; an uproar or commotion |
| turgid | swollen, bloated; overdecorated or excessive in language |
| prolific | abundantly productive |
| paraphrase | to restate in other words; a statement that presents a given idea in new language |
| contiguous | side by side, touching; adjacent |
| caricature | a representation in which the subject's characteristics are exaggerated |
| deleterious | harmful, injurious |
| scintillating | sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brillliant |
| sanctimonious | making a show of virtue or righteousness; self-righteous |
| winsome | charming, attractive (in a childlike innocent sense) |
| ostentatious | marked by conspicuous display; showy |
