| A | B |
|---|
| facetious | humorous; playfully joking |
| ostentatious | meant to impress others; flashy |
| optimum | best possible; most favorable; most desirable |
| detriment | something that causes damage, harm, or loss |
| vicarious | experienced through the imagination; not experienced directly |
| dexterous | skillfull in using hte hands or body |
| scrupulous | careful about moral standards |
| gregarious | sociable; enjoying and seeking the company of others |
| discretion | good judgment or tact in actions or speaking |
| sensory | having to do with seeing, hearing, feeliung, tasting, or smelling |
| instigate | to bring about by moving others to action; stir up |
| rudimentary | fundamental; necessary to learn first |
| resilient | able to recover quickly from harm, illness, or misfortune |
| collaborate | to work together on a project; cooperate in an effort |
| zealot | a person totally devoted to a purpose or cause |
| squelch | to silence or suppress; crush |
| venerate | to respect deeply; revere |
| despondent | downhearted; hopeless; overwhelmed with sadness |
| retrospect | reviewing the past; considering past events |
| scoff | to make fun of; mock; refuse to take seriously |
| juxtapose | to place close together especially in order to compare or contrast |
| lethargy | a great lack of energy; inactivity due to laziness |
| ambiguous | able to be interpreted in more than one way; not clear |
| inane | without sense or meaning; foolish |
| dissident | a person opposed to established ideas or beliefs, especially in politics or religion |
| embellish | to decorate; beautify by adding details |
| subsidize | to support financially; provide a grant or contribution |
| fritter | to spend or waste a little at a time |
| inadvertent | unintentional; accidental |
| sporadic | occasional; happening now and then |
| berate | to criticize or scold harsly |
| relinquish | to surrender (something); give (something) up |
| impetuous | done or acting in a hurry, with little thought; impulsive |
| maudlin | tearfully sentimental; overly emotional |
| ubiquitous | existing or seeming to exist everywhere at the same time |
| zenith | the highest point or condition; peak |
| estrange | to make unsympathetic or unfriendly; alienate |
| infallible | not capable of error or failure; unable to make a mistake |
| euphoric | overjoyed; having an intense feeling of well-being |
| regress | to return to an earlier, generally worse, condition or behavior |
| dormant | inactive; alive but not actively growing, as if asleep |
| disseminate | to spread or scatter widely; distribute |
| irrevocable | not able to be canceled or undone; irreversible |
| proliferation | a rapid spread or increase |
| corroborate | to support; strengthen with further evidence; provide proof of |
| precipitate | to cause to happen quickly, suddenly, or sooner than expected |
| hoist | to lift, especially with some mechanical means, like a cable |
| charlatan | a fake; a person who falsely claims to have some special skill or knowledge |
| diverge | to branch off in different directions form teh same starting point; to become different |
| illicit | illegal |
| vit, viv | life, lively |
| extra- | outside, beyond |
| chron-, chrono- | time |
| liber, liver | free, freedom |
| de- | away, separation, removal |
| ante-, anti | before, preceding |
| voc, vok | voice, call |
| dorm | sleep |
| ject | throw, toss |
| -cide | kill, killing, killer |
