| A | B |
|---|
| Edification | Intellectual, moral or spiritual improvement:enlightenment |
| Duress | Constraint by threat |
| corroborate | to support or confirm by new evidence: attest to the truth or accuracy of |
| cantankerous | ill tempered and quarrelsome |
| auspicious | attended by favorable circumstances |
| assuage | to make less painful |
| ascertain | to discover through examination or experimentation |
| condescension | to agree to do something beneath ones rank |
| aberration | disorder of the mind |
| encumber | to weigh down excessively |
| elucidation | to make clear or plain |
| connivance | to pretend not to notice something that should be reported |
| acquiescence | to consent or comply without protest |
| entailment | to have a neccessary consequence |
| feral | having revorted to a wild or untamed state from domestication |
| interdict | to forbid |
| litgant | a person who is engages in a lawsuit |
| nullify | to invalidate |
| temerity | audacity:bold:arrogant |
| stolid | apathetic:little emotion |
| sordid | filthy or dirty |
| persevere | to persist in or remain constant to a purpose idea or task inspit of obstacles or discouragement |
| pestilence | any fatal epidemic disease |
| ominous | of or being an omen, esp. of evil |
| succinct | makrked by brevity: consice |
| tenet | a basic principal:dogma |
