| A | B |
|---|
| supine | lying on the back; inactive or passive |
| vivisect | to dissect a living body |
| maladroit | not skillful; bungling or tactless |
| raucous | unpleasantly harsh or strident |
| polyglot | able to speak or write in several languages |
| deft | quick and skillful |
| stolid | not easilyh stirred or excited |
| puerile | childishly foolish |
| invective | vehement denunciation, censure, or abuse; insulting or abusive language |
| deference | yielding to the opinion, will or another |
| camaraderie | comradeship or good fellowship |
| nuance | subtle shade of color, meaning, feeling |
| arcane | mysteriously secret or obscure |
| banter | light playful joking |
| wary | habitually watchful |
| insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful |
| autonomy | self-governing |
| disingenuous | lacking in frankness or candor |
| untoward | unfavorable or not fortunate |
| unconscionable | not guided by conscience; excessive or unreasonable |
| inertia | indisposition to action or motion |
| pubescent | arrived or arriving at puberty |
| pacific | tending to make peace; calm or tranquil |
| empathy | indentification with the feelings or thoughts of another person |
| regale | to entertain or amuse thoroughly |
| toadied | to be a fawning flatterer |
| preempt | to take possession of for oneself before others can |
| strafing | to attack with machine-gun fire from an airplane flying low |
| ascetic | a person who practices extreme self-denial, esp. for religious reasons |
| bespoke | to show evidence of |
| pinioned | to bind (a person's arms or hands) so as not to prevent movement |
| sentient | able to percieve by the sense; experiencing sensation or feeling |
| interstice | a small or narrow space between things or parts |
| petulant | showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over a trifling annoyance |
| exigencies | cases demanding prompt action |
| candor | honesty and directness |
| jaded | worn-out or wearied, as by overwork |
| fiat | an arbitrary decree or order |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place, esp. for duty or business |
| errant | wandering in quest of adventure; erring or doing wrong |
| genial | having a pleasant or friendly manner |
| recluse | one who lives in seclusion |
| incredulous | skeptical; disbelieving |
| ostensible | apparent |
| abandon | to forsake; desert |
| noun | person, place or thing |
| pronoun | a word used to take the place of a noun |
| antecedent | the noun a pronoun substitutes for |
| adjective | a word used to describe a noun or pronoun |
| adverb | a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb |
