| A | B |
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| Abate | To make less active or intense; to become less in amount or intensity |
| Abdicate | Give up, such as power, as of a monarch or emperor, or duties and obligations |
| Aberration | A state or condition markedly different from the norm; a disorder in one’s mental state |
| Abstain | Refrain from voting; choose not to consume |
| Adversity | A state of misfortune or affliction; a stroke of ill fortune |
| Aesthetic | Relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics; concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste; aesthetically pleasing |
| Amicable | Characterized by friendship and good will |
| Anachronistic | Chronologically misplaced |
| Arid | Lacking sufficient rainfall or water; lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless |
| Asylum | A shelter from danger or hardship; a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced persons |
| Benevolent | Intending or showing kindness; showing or motivated by sympathy, understanding, and generosity; generous in providing aid to others; generous in assistance to the poor |
| Bias | A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation; a line or cut across fabric; influence in an unfair way; slanting diagonally across the grain of fabric |
| Boisterous | Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; violently agitated and turbulent |
| Brazen | Unrestrained by convention or propriety; made of resembling brass (as in color and hardness) ; face with defiance or imprudence |
| Brusque | Marked by rate or peremptory shortness |
| Camaraderie | Quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability |
| Capacious | Able to contain large quantity |
| Capitulate | To surrender under agreed condition |
| Clairvoyant | Someone who has the power of clairvoyance; perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses; foreseeing the future |
| Convergence | The occurrence of 1 or more things coming together; the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit; a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; coming closer |
| Deleterious | Harmful to living things |
| Demagogue | A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices |
| Digression | A message that departs from the main subject; a turning aside (of your course, attention, or concern); wandering from the main path of a journey |
| Disdain | Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; to reject with contempt |
| Divergent | Diverging from another or from a standard; tending to move apart in different directions |
| Enervating | Causing debilitation |
| Ephemeral | Lasting a very short time; anything short lived as an insect that lives only for a day in winged form |
| Evanescent | Tending to vanish like vapor |
| Exemplary | Worthy of imitation; being or serving |
| Extenuating | Partially excusing or justifying |
| Florid | Elaborately or excessively ornamented; inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life |
| Forbearance | Good natured tolerance of delay or incompetence; a delay in enforcing rights, claims or privileges; refraining from acting |
| Hackneyed | Repeated too often; over familiar through overuse |
| Haughty | Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy |
| Hedonist | Someone motivated by desire for sensual pleasures |
| Impetuous | Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; marked by violent force |
| Impute | Attribute or credit to; attribute (responsibility or fault) to cause or source |
| Intuitive | Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; obtained through intuition rather than for reasoning or observation |
| Intrepid | Invulnerable (incapable) to fear or intimidation |
| Mundane | Found in the ordinary course of events; concerned with the world or worldly matters; belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly |
| Nonchalant | Marked by blithe unconcern |
| Opulent | Rich and superior |
| Ostentatious | To show off; intended to attract notice and impress others; of a display tawdry or vague |
| Perfidious | Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character (as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans) |
| Pragmatic | Concerned with practical matters; guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory |
| Pretentious | Making claim or creating an appearance of (often deserved) importance or distinction; intended to attract notice and impress others |
| Querulous | Habitually complaining |
| Rancorous | Showing deep-seated resentment |
| Sagacity | The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations; the trait of framing opinions by distinguishing and evaluating |
| Spurious | Plausible but false; born out of wedlock; intended to deceive |
