| A | B |
|---|
| ascertain (v.) | to perceive, learn |
| clamor (n.) | loud noise |
| clamor (v.) | to loudly insist |
| accede (v.) | to agree |
| abrograte (v.) | to abolish, usually by authority |
| surrogate (n.) | one acting in place of another |
| surmise (v.) | to infer with little evidence |
| emaciated (adj.) | very thin |
| criteria (n.) | standards by which something is judged |
| dissuade (v.) | to persuade someone not to do something |
| debacle (n.) | a disastrous failure, disruption |
| adamant (adj.) | impervious, immovable, unyielding |
| staid (adj.) | sedate, serious, self-restrained |
| reclusive (adj.) | solitary, shunning society |
| stoic (adj.) | unaffected by passion or feeling |
| excavate (v.) | to dig out of the ground and remove |
