| A | B |
|---|
| amortize | end (a debt) by setting aside money |
| antithetical | direct opposite |
| aplomb | self-confidence |
| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
| apprise | give notice to inform |
| approbation | approval |
| appropos | appropriate to the situation apt |
| arabesque | a complex ornate design |
| ardor | enthusiasm |
| arduous | steep difficult ascent laborious |
| argot | jargon slang |
| arrant | in the highest degree |
| ascetic | practicing self-denial austere stark |
| ascribe | consider to be the origin of or belonging to |
| aseptic | surgically clean |
| aspersion | slander |
| assail | with attack violently |
| assuage | make something (plain desire) less |
| atonement | repayment death of jesus |
| attenuate | make thin weaken enervate |
| attune | bring into harmony |
| augury | omen sign |
| august | majestic venerable |
| auspicious | favorable successful prosperous |
| aver | affirm assert prove justify |
| aversion | strong dislike |
| avid | eager greedy |
| avow | admit. Declare openly |
| baleful | harmful ominous causing evil |
| balk | obstacle purposely to get on the way of |
| barrage | artificial obstacle built across a river |
| barren | not good enough unable to have young one without value |
| bedizen | adorn especially in a cheap showy manner |
| belabor | beat hard |
| berate | scold sharply |
| bilge | bulge the protuberance of a cask |
| boisterous | loud noisy rough lacking restraint |
| brazen | made of brass |
| brook | to tolerate endure |
| burgeon | grow forth send out buds |
