| A | B |
|---|
| disparage | to put down or demean |
| malignant | harmful, dangerous, cancerous |
| deft | skilled with tasks involving the hands |
| refine | to make purer, to make finer |
| curt | rudely brief or abrupt in speech or manner |
| awry | crooked or askew |
| morose | depressing, gloomily ill-humored |
| vocation | a career |
| auditory | having to do with hearing |
| deluge | a downpour of rain |
| austere | extremely simple or self-sacrificing, not fancy |
| predecessor | the person who had a job previously |
| ransack | to search thoroughly or violently |
| waiver | a voluntary giving-up of a right |
| civil | having to do with citizenship or the public |
| misfortune | bad luck |
| refute | to prove to be false |
| atypical | not usual |
| abhor | to hate, to loathe |
| oration | a speech |
