| A | B |
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| aspire | to strive for a goal; to want or desire something excellent or far beyond the current state |
| bilateral | (adj) having two sides |
| candor | (n) honesty or straightforwardness, especially being honest about something unpleasant |
| defraud | (v) to cheat; to gain something dishonestly, as through a lie, deception, or confidence game |
| deity | (n) a god or goddess |
| elude | (v) to escape from someone or something giving chase or searching; especially to use clever tactics to escape from pursuers |
| fixture | (n) a permanency; a person or thing remaining fixed, in the same position |
| handwriting | (n) the character or style of a person's writing by hand; cursive writing |
| havoc | (n) chaos or large-scale destruction |
| imbibe | (v) to drink a liquid; to absorb or take in something |
| juncture | (n) a joint or seam, where two parts meet |
| kernel | (n) in a plant, a grain or seed; often edible and found inside the plant |
| lapse | (n) the act of falling from a righteous or just position; a slight or temporary moral failure |
| malady | (n) a disease, illness, or medical condition, especially a serious or chronic condition |
| myriad | (n) many; a large number; countless |
| necessitate | (v) to make something necessary |
| nestle | (v) to lay or be enclosed comfortably; to snuggle |
| obliterate | (v) to destroy; to break down into nothing; to eliminate |
| parse | (v) to break something down into its parts in order to explain or understand it; especially to break apart a sentence into words and phrases, describing each part |
| queue | (n) a line; a group of people waiting in order |
| ravenouse | (adj) extremely hungry; filled with hunger that cannot be satisfied |
| scuttle | (v) to sink a ship by creating a hole or holes in the ship beneath the water line; also to destroy or wreck |
| thearchy | (n) a government ruled by the leaders of a religion or by the power of a god or gods |
| underworld | (n) a world beneath or below the normal world, especially a criminal world such as mafia society or a world of the dead such as Hades |
| writhe | (v) to move uncomfortably; to twist around, especially to express pain |
