| A | B |
|---|
| tacit | not spoken |
| capacious | spacious; roomy |
| contentious | quarrelsome; not getting along |
| prodigious | extraordinary; impressively great |
| inane | lacking in sense or substance |
| inured | to get used to something undesirable |
| inebriating | intoxicating |
| mordantly | bitingly sarcastic or painful |
| spectral | ghostly |
| enmity | deep rooted often mutual hatred |
| latent | present but not developed or active |
| cliches | trite or overused expressions |
| curtly | rudely brief or abrupt |
| reverie | daydreaming |
| idiosyncratic | peculiar |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably small |
| sinecure | a paid position requiring little work |
| bantam | small but aggressive and spirited |
| puttee | lower leg covering |
| zestfully | with spirit and energy |
| rhetorical | concerned with show or effect |
| insinuations | implications |
| opulent | luxurious |
| mull | to go over extensively in the mind |
| aphorisms | short statements of truth |
| sustenance | support for life |
| abashed | ashamed or uneasy |
| cacophony | discordant sounds |
| culminate | come to an end |
| preeminently | outstandingly |
| imperceptibility | impossible to detect with the senses |
| inveigled | coaxed |
| bane | deadly poison |
| primevally | belonging to the earliest ages |
| incongruity | not corresponding to character or kind |
| innately | inborn; inherently |
| animosity | bitter hostility |
| qualms | doubts |
