| A | B |
|---|
| PLUMMET | To decline suddenly or steeply, plunge |
| MIRED | Stuck, entangled, trapped |
| RASH | Outbreak of events within a brief time |
| SCOFFS | Ridicules, mocks |
| ADVOCATES | Supporters of a cause |
| RAMBUNTIOUS | Boisterous and disorderly; noisy and undisciplined |
| SPATE | A sudden flood, rush or outpouring |
| RHETORIC | Pretentious, insincere, intellectually vacant language |
| INCLUSIVENESS | Taking in all or everything in its scope |
| PRECURSOR | Predecessor, forerunner; an indicator of something that is to come |
| CONGLOMERATE | Group of businesses or companies |
| RUBRIC | A rule or direction |
| CATER | Provide food service, attend to someone's needs |
| DEMEANOUR | Behavior |
| PROPRIETOR | Owner |
| ADHERES | Remains attached, follows devotedly |
| RAMIFICATIONS | Developments, consequences |
| BECKONED | Signaled, motioned to |
| GENEALOGIST | One who studies or investigates family history |
| DESCENT | Ancestry, lineage |
| SPAWNED | Produced, give rise to |
| SHUNNING | Avoiding, keeping away from |
| COIN | To make, devise |
| MOSQUE | Islamic place of worship |
| DELUGED | Overwhelmed |
| ASSIMILATION | Absorption of a minority group into a prevailing culture |
| ADVOCATES | Supporters of a cause |
| DEFIANCE | Resistance to force or authority, open hostility |
| COUNSEL | Advice, guidance |
| DEFECTIVE | Faulty, abnormal |
| EXPLICITLY | Fully and clearly expressed |
| ILLITERATE | Unable to read or write |
| NAUGHT | Nothingness, nonexistence, insignificant |
| VAGUELY | Not clearly expressed, indistinctly |
| PRECARIOUSLY | Dangerously |
| CASCADED | Fell, tumbled |
| RESOLVE | Determination, firmness of purpose |
| PROTOTYPE | An original that serves as a standard |
| AMORAL | Neither moral nor immoral, not caring about right or wrong |
| MAUDLIN | Tearfully sentimental |
| POIGNANT | Profoundly moving, touching |
| QUIRKY | Odd, peculiar |
| AFFLUENT | Wealthy prosperous |
| DYSFUNCTIONAL | Not functioning, not working, impaired |
| PREMISE | Proposition, plan on which an argument is based |
| ELEGIAC | Relating to mourning or expressing sorrow for something that is over or gone |
| PROLIFERATION | Rapid growth or spread |
