| A | B |
|---|
| baffle | bewilder; perplex |
| cinematography | the art of making motion pictures |
| despise | to look down on with contempt; to loathe |
| despicable | contemptible |
| ebullient | enthusiastic; vivacious |
| ebullience | exuberance; enthusiasm |
| exhort | to advise strongly; to urge |
| exhortation | urgent recommendation or advice |
| expertise | specialized skill or technical knowledge; know-how |
| finicky | hard to please; fussy; fastidious |
| gall | to irritate, annoy, or vex |
| inane | pointless; lacking significance |
| inanity | foolishness; shallowness |
| indemnify | to compensate for loss, damage, or injury; to repay or reimburse |
| peruse | to read carefully; to study |
| perusal | reading; study |
| tepid | lukewarm |
| wane | to decrease in power or size; to dwindle |
| stipend | fixed pay for services; salary |
| surveillance | close watch over a person, group, or area; supervision |
| ameliorate | to make better |
| detrimental | harmful |
| exotic | foreign |
| impediment | something that hinders or gets in the way |
| impede | to block or hinder |
| indolent | lazy |
| indolence | laziness |
| intact | whole |
| invalid | void; having no force |
| invalidate | to make void or ineffective |
| parsimonious | stingy |
| parsimony | stinginess |
| raze | to destroy by tearing down; to demolish |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or secretive |
| reticence | reluctance to speak |
| retort | to answer sharply or angrily |
| subvert | to overthrow; to undermine |
| subversion | acts intending to overthrow or undermine |
| tractable | docile; manageable; obedient |
| tractability | obedience; docility; manageability |
| abhor | to loathe, hate or detest |
| abhorrent | loathsome; odious |
| admonish | to warn of a fault; to reprove |
| admonition | gentle warning |
| confine | to imprison |
| confinement | imprisonment |
| detonate | to explode |
| detonation | explosion |
| ephemeral | fleeting; short-lived |
| gullible | easily deceived |
| gull | to cheat or deceive |
| haggle | to dispute over a price |
| immerse | to place into a liquid OR to engross |
| immersion | absorption |
| lapse | error OR an interval of time |
| render | to give or deliver |
| repast | meal |
| replenish | to refill |
| score | twenty |
| unwittingly | accidentally |
| acquit | to pronounce not quilty |
| acquittal | discharge |
| effrontery | gall; temerity |
| excruciating | agonizing; unbearably painful |
| forbearance | leniency; patience |
| hamper | to interfere with; to impede |
| oblivious | unaware |
| prodigious | enormous |
| oblivion | forgetfulness |
| prodigy | a person of extraordinary talent |
| rejuvenate | to refresh |
| residue | remainder |
| residual | remaining after a part is used or taken |
| scrutinze | to inspect |
| scrutiny | examination; inspection |
| supersede | to replace |
| sweltering | oppressively hot |
| unruffled | calm; unflustered |
| unwieldly | hard to handle; cumbersome |
| unwieldiness | bulkiness |
