| A | B |
| abject | degraded; contemptible |
| agnostic | skeptic; without faith |
| complicity | involvement in wrongdoing |
| derelict | left abandoned |
| diatribe | a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| effigy | a crude image of a despised person |
| equity | something that is fair; the money value of a property |
| inane | silly, empty of meaning or value |
| indictment | a formal accusation |
| indubitable | certain, not to be doubted |
| intermittent | stopping and beginning again |
| moot | to bring up for discussion |
| motif | a principal idea, feature, theme or element |
| neophyte | beginner, novice |
| perspicacity | keenness in observing and understanding |
| plenary | complete in all aspects or essentials |
| surveillance | a watch kept over a person |
| sylvan | pertaining to or characteristic of forests |
| testy | characterized by impatience and exasperation |
| travesty | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex |