| A | B |
|---|
| evade | to advoid fulfilling, answering or performing |
| harangue | a long, pompous speech |
| allay | to reduce the intensity of (relieve) |
| falter | to be unsteady in purpose or action fom loss of confidence |
| summon | to call 2gether (convene) |
| consternation | a state of paralyzing dismay |
| agitate | to cause to move with violence or sudden force |
| err | to make an error |
| tulmult | the commotion of a great crowd |
| felicitation | congratulations |
| perilous | full of or involving peril (dangerous) |
| imperative | obligatory (mandatory) |
| undulation | a wavelike movement |
| coniferous | relating to or parts of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves |
| goad | a stimulus |
| arduous | testing severly the powers of endurance |
| derelict | deserted by an owner or keeper (abandoned) |
| nostalgia | a bittersweet longing for things, persons or situations of the past |
| obliquely | having a slanting or sloping direction, course or position (inclined) |
| contrite | feeling regret or sorrow for one's sins or offenses |
| capitulate | to surrender |
| copious | abundant (referring to food) |
| elated | filled with joy or happiness |
| impetus | an impulse (an urge) |
| abject | despicable, miserable or wretched |
| truism | an obvious truth |
| ominous | connected to an evil omen |
| resolute | characterized by determination and loyalty |
| disconcerted | disturbed, made uneasy or anxious |
| reticent | not inclined to speak out (quiet) |
| vivacious | full of animation (lively) |
| gaunt | thin and bony |
| fatigue | physical or mental exhaustion |
| advocate | to speak in favor of |
| mandate | to command |
| immaculate | extraordinarily clean or pure |
| excommunicate | to exclude from a religion |
| secular | not pertaining to the spiritual |
| anguish | agonizing physical or mental pain |
| countenance | facial features :) or :( |
| meager | deficent in quantitiy or richness (feeble) |
| compulsory | obligatory, required |
| fanatic | a person possesed by an excessive and irrational zeal |
| adept | highly skilled |
| solidarity | a union of intrests among members of a group |
| disperse | to scatter in various directions |
| barrage | an overwhelming |
| precaution | a safeguard |
| ravenous | voracious, extremely hungry |
| obsolete | no longer in use |
| oscillate | vacillate, to sway back and forth |
| palatial | resembling a palace |
| paraphrase | to restate in different words |
| potent | strong, powerful |
| quizzical | puzzled |
| redundant | unnecessarily repetative |
| remiss | careless in one's duties |
| retort | to reply in a sharp fashion |
| rote | outine or mechanical in fashion |
| jargon | a special language for a trade or profession |
| jovial | possesing a joyous, happy nature |
| knell | the toll of a bell (usu, a funeral bell) |
| labyrinth | an intricate mess |
| lackadaisical | lacking spirit or energy |
| magnitude | greatness of size, impact or extent |
| malicious | spitefully mean |
| nebulous | couldy or vague |
| nomad | one who roams fom place to place having to real home |
| notorious | being well known for something that is usually not that good |
| its | pronoun refering to belonging |
| it's | it is |
| feign | to pretend |
| finagle | to use cleaver methods to achieve one's desires |
| genre | a particular style of art, music, books, film, etc. |
| gullible | easily cheated or decieved |
| homogeneous | the same throughout |
| imminent | not on purpose (accidentally) |
| inalienable | incapable of being taken away |
| there | pronoun that shows place |
| their | pronoun referring to belonging |
| they're | they are |
| aberrant | abandoning the correct, expected or proper way of doing things |
| abyss | an endless black void |
| bedlam | fake, counterfeit |
| capital | a letter that is not lower-case or a city designated as a seat of government |
| capitol | the building in which the legislative branch of government meets |
| defer | to yeild with respect (to delay) |
| deface | to disfigure or damage |
| elegy | a poem of mourning |
| endeavor | to strive for or attempt |
| implicit | subtle |
| explicit | clearly defined |
| evident | easily recognized |
| diligent | done with great effort and care |
| excessive | beyond what is required |
| quandary | a dilemma or question |
| except | to leave out (but) |
| accept | to recieve or say yes to |
| affect | to influence or make an impact upon |
| effect | the result or consequence |
