| A | B |
|---|
| affable | pleasant, friendly |
| ameliorate | to make better, improve |
| amenable | willing to agree, responsive, cooperative |
| approbation | approval |
| appropriated | to take or make use of without authority or right |
| arduous | long and difficult and thus hard to accomplish |
| audacious | very bold |
| blanch | to drain of color; become pale |
| bombastic | pretentious, inflated speech or writing, lacking in humility |
| brandish | to shake or wave in a menacing manner |
| brusque | tough and abrupt in manner or speech, curt |
| burgeon | to grow rapidly |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| capacious | spacious, roomy |
| circuitous | following a circular or winding path, indirect |
| circumscribe | to draw a line around, hence to restrict or limit |
| compendium | a concise list or summary |
| consensus | a general agreement, common consent |
