| A | B |
|---|
| foray | a quick, sudden attack; to invade or make one's way, as for profit or adventure |
| scrutinize | to examine in detail with careful or critical attention |
| inchoate | not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary; not organized; lacking order |
| flotsam | material or refuse floating on water; useless or unimportant items; odds and ends |
| wrest | to take away by force |
| mawkish | overly or falsely emotional; nauseating |
| connoisseur | a discerning judge of the best in any field |
| impel | to drive or cause to move onward; propel; impart motion to |
| amorphous | lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless |
| mercenary | greedy; a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army |
| recoil | to draw back; to start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust |
| puerile | childishly foolish; immature or trivial |
| bevy | a group of birds or animals or anything |
| gravitate | to move or be drawn toward |
| senile | showing a decline of physical strength or mental functioning, esp. short-term memory and alertness, as a result of old age or disease |
| retinue | a group of aides attending an important person |
| deter | to discourage, stop, or prevent from occurring |
| discriminating | able to see fine distinctions; having good taste; distinctive; marked by prejudice |
| zealot | a fanatic or extremely zealous (enthusiastic) follower of a cause, especially a religious one |
| usurp | to steal; to take without right |
| philanthrophic | generous |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something; supervision |
| confiscate | to take by authority |
| prodigious | enormous or wonderful |
| largess | generosity |
