| A | B |
|---|
| Abneagate | To deny oneself; to renounce; to surrender |
| Afflatus | A creative impulse, divine inspiration |
| Animus | A hostile feeling |
| Arable | Suitable for the growing of crops |
| Atrabilious | Inclined to melancholy |
| Bellwether | A person who assumes a leadership role of takes initiative |
| Bifurcated | Forked, divided into two branches |
| Boondoggle | Useless or valueless project or activity |
| Brummagem | Bogus, fraudulent, cheap, showy |
| Caducity | The frailty of old age, the quality of being perishable |
| Canard | A fabricated story, or sensational report, hoax |
| Celerity | Haste, swiftness of movement |
| Comestibles | Soemthing that can be eaten as food |
| Daedal | Ingenious or complex in design |
| Deciduous | Shedding or losing leaves on aparticular season, not evergreen |
| Denouement | The outcome |
| Edacious | Having an insatiable appetite |
| Ephemeral | Short-lived, transitory |
| Escarpment | Cliff, steep slope resulting from erosion |
| Filial | Relating to a son |
| Galoot | Loutish oaf, a clumsy but somewhat likable person |
| Esculent | Edible, suitable for eating |
| Grig | A lively person |
| Ineluctable | Inescapable, not to be avoided |
| Inured | To become accustomed to something undesireable |
| Jejune | Dull, lacking interest, empty of food |
| Lachrymose | Tearful, mournful |
| Manque | A failure to realize one's aspirations |
| Manumit | To release from slavery |
| Mugwump | A person or politician who can't make up his mind, an independent |
| Obsteperous | Stubbornly defiant, angry and clamorous |
| Palimpsest | A surface that has been written on, erased or covered, and then reused for something else |
| Pastiche | A hodgepodge from different sources |
| Percipience | Keen perception |
| Proscenium | The part of the stage in front of the curtain, the waill frame for the stage |
| Pulchritude | Physical Beauty |
| Quisling | Traitor who helps an enemy who occupies his country |
| Quotidian | Occuring every day, commonplace |
| Etiolate | Pale and drawn, to make weak by stunting growth |
| Satrap | A subordinate ruler |
