| A | B |
|---|
| aggravate | to make worse or more serious |
| dawdle | to take more time than necessary |
| castigate | to punish or criticize severely |
| decline | to refuse politely |
| enhance | to make greater |
| enigmatic | puzzling |
| famish | to starve to death |
| mollify | to calm in temper or feeling, soothe |
| nebulous | cloudy or misty; lacking form or limits; vague |
| plagiarize | to use and pass off the ideas or writings of another as one's own |
| quibble | to evade the truth or importance of an issue by raising trivial distinctions and objections |
| sumptuous | of a size or splendor suggesting great expense; lavish |
| turpitude | a base character or action depravity |
| unanimous | sharing the same opinion or views; being in complete harmony or agreement |
| vacillate | to fluctuate in one's opinions; be indecisive |
| yearn | to desire greatly |
| wince | give a slight grimace or shrinking movement of the body out of distress |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people |
| superfluous | unnecessary, more than what is needed, extraneous |
| reprimand | to reprove severely, especially in a formal or official way |
