| A | B |
|---|
| Effusively or tearfully sentimental | Maudlin |
| Origin of maudlin | Alteration of Magdeline, frequently depicted as a tearful penitent |
| To mix up or distort so as to make misleading or incomprehensible | Garble |
| Origin of garble | Middle English garbelen, to clean spices<AN garbeler, to sift, and<Med. Latin garbellare, both<Ar. garbala, to select<girbal, sieve<LLat cribellum, dim |
| Composed of numerous diverse elements or facets | Myriad |
| Origin of myriad | Greek murias, muriad-, ten thousand, <murious countless |
| Destructively or frantically violent | Berserk |
| Origin of berserk | ON, ber-bear, serk-shirt |
| Ancient or venerable | Hoary |
| Origin of hoary | hoar + -y |
| To abstain or keep away from | Eschew |
| Origin of eschew | Middle English<Old French<Germanic, sciuhen, scheuchen |
| Courteous, gratuitous, and having a sophisticated charm | Debonair |
| Origin of debonair | Middle English, debone(i)re<Anglo-French;old |
| That cannot be doubted | Indubitable |
| Origin of indubitable | Latin, indubitabilis |
| Causing or producing cold | Frigorific |
| Origin of frigorific | Latin frigorificus, cosing, equivalent to frigor- |
| To defeat or best in two ways at once | Whipsaw |
| Origin of whipsaw | German |
| Dissatisfied with existing conditions | Malcontent |
| To give an impressive but artificial quality | Hoke |
| Origin of hoke | HOKUM |
| Feeble or ineffective | Feckless |
| SC feck, effect (alteration of effect) + -less | Origin of feckless |
| A source of opinion; a critic | Pundit |
