| A | B |
|---|
| acrimonious | biting or vicious especially in feeling language or manner |
| adamant | inflexible, unyielding in opinion or action |
| affluent | having an abundance of material possessions |
| air | to make a public utterance, to verbalize or speak |
| amiably | generally agreeable friendly or sociable |
| ascend | to move upward |
| auspicious | favored by success; prosperous |
| austere | morally strict stern or cold in appearance or manner |
| beguile | to decieve or mislead |
| benevolence | an act of kindness; a desire to do good unto others |
| benign | harmless |
| calamity | a serious event causing distress or misfortune |
| cantankerous | irritable, difficult to deal with |
| chide | to voice disapproval, to scold, admonish, chasten, chastise |
| compel | to force; require |
| conscience | inner sense of right and wrong |
| contemptuous | expressing disrespect, despising something |
| convict | to prove or declare guilty |
| demise | death; to bequeath or give to a successor |
| denunciation | public condemnation |
| dexterity | skill or cleverness with the hands or body |
| dirge | funeral hymn |
| disparage | to degrade |
| duress | forceful restraint or restriction; unlawful constraint |
| edification | moral or spiritual improvment |
| elucidate | to make clear by explanation or analysis |
| elude | to slip away from; to baffle the memory and understanding |
| engrossing | fully occupying the mind or attention; absorbing |
| feeble | lacking strength |
| feign | to give a false appearance, to pretend |
| feint | a fals appearance, a trick |
| feral | wild; untamed |
| formidable | inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable |
| furtive | secret; stealthy |
| gall | bile |
| galling | very irritating |
| impertinence | not of relevance; insulting; rude |
| inauspicious | unfavorable |
| infallible | incapable of making mistakes or being wrong |
| ingenuous | sincere |
| innate | arising naturally from within; existing in one from birth |
| interred | placed in a grave or tomb |
| inundate | to cover with water, to flood, to overflow, to overwhelm |
| inundation | an overflow, a flood |
| irascible | easily angered; hot tempered |
| irk | to annoy |
| lament | to mourn or to express sorrow in a expressive manner |
| malevolent | evil, showing ill will, wishing harm unto others |
| melancholy | a gloomy state of mind |
| oblivious | not aware of or not concerned about what is happening |
| pensive | deeply thoughtful |
| perjury | false testimony under oath, lying under oath |
| pernicious | very destructive or harmful |
| perplexed | puzzled; confused |
| peruse | to read or to examine |
| pinioned | to confine by binding the arms; to clip or confine the wings of |
| portent | a sign or forewarning |
| predilection | a tendency to think favorably towards something; a preference |
| preoccupation | extreme or excessive concern with something or someone |
| presage | to predict, to foreshadow |
| profane | showing contempt toward sacred things |
| prostrate | completely overcome, falling down in submission |
| purloin | to steal |
| recluse | secluded; religious devotee who lives in an isolated room or cell |
| reluctantly | unwillingly |
| repose | to lie or to be at rest or the state of being at rest |
| resignation | the acceptance of something undesirable but unavoidable |
| resilient | tending to recover or adjust easily to misfortune or change |
| resolute | firmly determined |
| resolution | determination |
| rigor | strictness, severity, or harshness in dealing with people |
| sordid | low or unworthy details; dirty |
| spurious | illegitimate; not genuine; forged |
| squalid | marked by filthiness from neglect and poverty |
| stark | harsh, grim or desolate, dreary |
| submissive | yielding or surrendering to the will of another, obedient |
| sullen | silently gloomy or unfriendly |
| tedious | tiresome because of length or dullness boring |
| thwart | to effectively oppose or stop |
| tranquil | peaceful; at ease |
| treachery | violation of faith; betrayal of trust, treason, disloyalty |
| turmoil | physical or mental agitation; confusion; disturbance |
| undulate | to move in a wavelike motion; to rise and fall in motion |
| utter | to express by speaking, to speak, pronounce |
| vapid | dull; lacking liveliness; spiritless |
| vehement | intensely emotional; bitterly antagonistic |
| vex | to annoy or irritate |
| vexation | discomfort or distress, annoyance |
| virtuous | having excellent morals |
