| A | B |
|---|
| bilk | to cheat or swindle |
| homily | a sermon |
| demise | death; a ceasing to exist |
| decadence | moral deterioration |
| aghast | feeling great dismay or horror |
| granary | a storehouse for grain |
| choleric | easily angered |
| impede | to hinder; to obstruct |
| qualm | a feeling of uneasiness |
| lampoon | a written satire used to ridicule or attack someone |
| narcissistic | conceited; having excessive self-love |
| eradicate | to wipe out; to destroy |
| fabricate | to concoct |
| ghastly | horrible; frightful |
| emit | to give forth (as in sound or light) |
| fallible | capable of error |
| blatant | obvious; too conspicuous |
| dawdle | to waste time |
| affiliate | an associate; a partner |
| fawn | to act slavishly submissive |
| calumny | a false and malicious accusation |
| berate | to scold or rebuke severely and at length |
| minion | a fawning, servile follower |
| desolate | lonely; forlorn; uninhabited |
| bane | the cause of ruin, harm, distress or death |
| pacify | to calm down |
| garble | to distort or mix up |
| prevaricate | to lie |
| filch | to steal |
| neophyte | a beginner |
