| A | B |
|---|
| abstruse | difficult to understand, recondite, concealed |
| affable | friendly, courteous, amiable |
| audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring |
| contrite | extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant |
| credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
| depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act |
| deprecate | to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval |
| didactic | instructive, designed to teach |
| dormant | inactive, sleeping |
| enigmatic | mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling |
| erudite | scholarly |
| exotic | foreign, unfamiliar |
| fuse | to mix or to join (usually by melting) |
| immutable | unchanging |
| incorrigible | incapable of being reformed or improved |
| loathe | to detest |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe |
| nullify | to cause not to be in effect, to negate |
| pacifistic | opposed to war or use of force |
| pretentious | making an extravagant outward show, self-important |
| prologue | introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action |
| recant | to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke |
| servile | overly submissive |
| trepidation | fear, trembling, agitation |
| vilify | to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against |
