| A | B |
|---|
| circumlocution | roundabout or indirect language |
| colloquial | appropriate to informal writing or speech; conversational |
| hyperbole | obvious exaggeration |
| frank | straightforward; sincere & candid |
| raconteur | a good story-teller |
| pundit | an authority who speaks publicly or writes & is likely to be quoted |
| amorphous | without structure or shape; nebulous |
| anomaly | irregularity; something that doesn't fit in |
| assimilation | absorption; the process of making something similar (in striving for uniformity) |
| unprecedented | happening for the first time; novel; unheard of; never seen before |
| precursor | forerunner |
| premonition | a sense or feeling about the future |
| prescient | predicting future events; having foresight |
