| A | B |
|---|
| allay | to lighten, relieve, dispel, diminish, calm, pacify, alleviate |
| prerogative | exclusive or special right or privilege |
| inveterate | firmly established, habitual, deep-rooted |
| extirpate | to root out, destroy totally, annihilate, exterminate, eradicate |
| fortitude | strength or courage in enduring pain or misfortune |
| prescience | knowledge of events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight |
| zenith | point in the sky directly overhead; highest point; peak; climax; summit; apex |
| auspicious | favorable; promising a good outcome; propitious |
| importune | to ask, urge, or beg persistently; to repeatedly and insistently entreat |
| supplant | to take the place of (especially by force or scheming); to replace or displace |
| celestial | heavenly |
| credulous | too willing to believe; easily convinced; gullible |
| perfidious | betraying trust; faithless; treacherous |
| debauch | to lead astray into bad or evil ways; to corrupt; to seduce |
| indignity | humiliating treatment, offense, insult, or injury |
| jocund | merry, cheerful, jolly, jovial |
| meander | to follow a winding course; to wander idly or aimlessly |
| travail | strenuous burdensome toil; anguish, agony, tribulation |
| vigilance | alert watchfulness, especially against trouble or danger; wariness |
| muse | (noun) a source of inspiration; (verb) to think deeply, meditate, ponder |
| austere | severe; strict; very plain |
| abstemious | sparing or moderate in eating or drinking; temperate |
| abate | to reduce; to diminish |
| ardor | warmth of feeling; passion; fervor; zeal |
| humane | kind; sympathetic; compassionate; merciful; benevolent |
| penitent | feeling sorry and willing to atone or make up for sin or wrongdoing; contrite |
| potent | powerful or effective |
| abjure | to solemnly give up, renounce, or repudiate |
| remorse | bitter and painful sense of guilt |
| chastise | to punish |
| usurp | to appropriate; to take over; to seize control over |
| tempest | storm |
| temporal | secular; worldly; not spiritual |
| sea change | transformation; reversal; shift of opinion or heart |
| nonpareil | (noun) paragon; a person or thing that has no equal; (adj.) without equal |
