| A | B |
|---|
| dexterous | (adj.) skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body |
| disingenuous | (adj.) lacking in frankness |
| cumbersome | (adj.) burdensome; troublesome |
| fortitude | (n.) mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty |
| bellow | (v.) to emit a hollow |
| surrogate | (n.) a person appointed to act for another; deputy |
| confluence | (n.) a flowing together of two or more streams; coming together |
| facile | (adj.) moving |
| manifest | (adj.) readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; obvious |
| blather | (n.) foolish |
| aesthetic | (adj.) pertaining to a sense of the beautiful |
| gait | (n.) a manner of walking |
| goad | (n.) a stick with a pointed; something that encourages |
| eviscerated | (v.) to remove the entrails from; disembowel |
| elusive | (adj.) eluding clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define |
| berm | (n.) a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat |
| loath | (adj.) unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse |
| perfunctory | (adj.) performed merely as a routine duty; lacking interest |
| assimilate | (v.) to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb. |
| regimented | (v.) to manage or treat in rigid |
| respite | (n.) a delay or cessation for a time |
| ambivalent | (n.) having ”mixed feelings about someone or something |
| sallow | (adj.) yellowish discoloration |
| periphery | (n.) the external boundary of any surface or area |
| sardonic | (adj.) characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking |
| estimable | (adj.) worthy of esteem; deserving respect or admiration |
| decimate | (v.) to destroy a great number or proportion of |
| portend | (v.) to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage |
| emanate | (v.) to flow out |
| inexorable | (adj.) not to be persuaded |
