| A | B |
|---|
| acme | the highest point or stage |
| aroma | a pleasant, often spicy or sweet, smell |
| aura | a subtly pervasive quality seeming to emanate from a person, place, or thing |
| bathos | overdone or insincere pathos; sentimentalism |
| colossus | anything huge or gigantic |
| cosmos | an orderly, harmonious, systematic universe |
| criterion | a standard for making a judgment or decision |
| emporium | a large store that sells a great variety or articles |
| encomium | glowing & elaborately enthusiastic praise |
| enigma | a baffling or puzzling situation |
| eon | any very long period of time; in geologic term, two or more eras |
| hoi polloi | the general populace; ordinary people; the masses |
| iota | an infinitesimal part or amount; a bit, jot, whit |
| lexicon | the vocabulary of a particular group |
| miasma | a bad-smelling, perhaps poisonous, vapor rising from decaying matter on the earth |
| nostalgia | a longing or wistful yearning for things belonging to the past |
| panacea | a remedy for all difficulties |
| pathos | a quality or elemen tthat arouses a feeling of pity, sadness, or compassion |
| phalanx | a group of persons united for a common purpose; a body of troops moving in close formation |
| phenomenon | a fact or event that can be observed |
| plethora | superabundance, excess, oversupply, superfluity |
| prolegomenon | preliminary material in a book; introduction, preface |
| stigma | a mark of disgrace or discredit |
| thesaurus | a reference book of synonyms |
| trauma | any abnormal physical or mental condition produced by shock or injury |
