| A | B |
|---|
| clangor | a loud, ringing sound; to make a loud ringing noise |
| deleterious | harmful, injurious |
| absolved | to clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt |
| enhance | to raise to a higher degree; to increase the value or desirability of |
| caricature | to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way |
| extenuate | to lessen the seriousness or magnitude of an offense by making partial excuses |
| contiguous | side by side, touching; near; adjacent in time |
| exude | to ooze out; to discharge through the pores; to emanate (as a quality or a personal impression) |
| implicit | implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts or reservations, unquestioning; potentially contained in |
| cupidity | an eager desire for something; greed |
| enthralled | to enslave; to imprison; to captivate, charm, hold spellbound |
| scintillating | sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant (applied to mental or personal qualities) |
| redundant | extra, excess, more than is needed; wordy, repetitive; profuse, lush |
| winsome | charming, attractive, pleasing (often suggesting a childlike charm and innocence) |
| preeminent | superior, outstanding; prominent |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| politic | prudent, shrewdly conceived and developed; artful, expedient |
| sanctimonious | making a show of virtue or righteousness; hypocritically moralistic or pious |
| incisive | sharp, keen, penetrating (with a suggestion of decisiveness and effectiveness) |
| prosaic | dull, ordinary, lacking in distinction and originality; characteristic of prose, not poetic |
| paraphrase | to restate in other words; a statement that presents a given idea in new language |
| ostentatious | marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy |
