| A | B |
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| austere | severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor |
| beneficent | performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good |
| cadaverous | pale, guant, resembling a corpse |
| concoct | to prepre by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate |
| crass | coarse, unfeeling; stupid |
| debase | to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate |
| desecrate | to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute |
| disconcert | to confuse; to distrube the composure of |
| grandiose | grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated |
| inconsequential | trifling, unimportant |
| infraction | a breaking of a law or obligation |
| mitigate | to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity |
| pillage | to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; the act of looting |
| prate | to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion |
| punctilious | very careful and exact; attentive to fine points of etiquette or property |
| redoubtable | inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent |
| reprove | to find fault with, scold, rebuke |
| restitution | the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage |
| stalwart | strong and sturdy; brave; resolute; a brave, strong person; a strong supporter; one who takes on an uncompromising position |
| vulnerable | open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected |
| acrimonious | stinging, bitter in temper or tone |
| bovine | resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive |
| consternation | dismay, confusion |
| corpulent | fat; having a large, bulky body |
| disavow | to deny responsibility for or connection with |
| dispassionate | impartial; calm, free from emotion |
| dissention | disagreement, sharp difference of opinion |
| dissipate | to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure |
| expurgate | to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify |
| gauntlet | an armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal |
| hpothetical | based on assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation |
| ignoble | mean, low, base |
| impugn | to call into question; to attack as false |
| intemperate | immoderate, lacking in self control; inclement |
| odium | hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
| perfidy | faithlessness, treachery |
| relegate | to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish |
| squeamish | inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined |
| subservient | subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end |
| susceptible | open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance |
| abate | to make less in amount, degree, etc.; to subside, become less; to nullify; to deduct, omit |
| adulation | praise or flattery that is excessive |
| anathema | an object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation |
| astute | shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom |
| avarice | a greedy desire, particularly for wealth |
| culpable | deserving blame, worthy of condemnation |
| dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt; intended to delay or postpone |
| egregious | conspicuous, standing out from the mass |
| equivocate | to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous |
| evanescent | vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy |
| irresolute | unable to make up one's mind, hesitating |
| nebulous | cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color, not transparent; vague, confused, indistinct |
| novice | one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience |
| penury | extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency |
| pretentious | done for show, striving to make a big impression; claiming merit or position unjustifiably; making demands on one's skill or abilities, ambitious |
| recapitulate | to review a series of facts; to sum up |
| resuscitate | to revive, bring back to consciousness or existence |
| slovenly | untidy, dirty, careless |
| supposition | something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence |
| torpid | inactive, sluggish, dull |
