| A | B |
| accost | to approach and speak to someone |
| adulterate | to contaminate; to make impure |
| allocate | to distribute; to assign; to allot |
| beset | to harass; to surround |
| coerce | to force someone to do or not do something |
| foment | to stir up; to instigate |
| founder | to fail; to collapse; to sink |
| gesticulate | to make gestures, especially when speaking or in place of speaking |
| instigate | to provoke; to stir up |
| marshal | to arrange in order; to gather together for the purpose of doing so |
| permeate | to spread or seep through; to penetrate |
| peruse | to read carefull |
| relegate | to banish; to send away |
| revere | to respect highly; to honor |
| scintillate | to sparkle, either literally or figuratively |
| spawn | to brink forth; to produce a large number |
| stipulate | to require something as part of an agreement |
| succumb | to yield or submit; to die |
| vacillate | to be indecisive; to waver |
| venerate | to revere; to treat something holy, especially because of great age |