| A | B |
|---|
| Abase | to humble; disgrace |
| Abash | to embarrass |
| Abet | to aid; accomplice |
| Abeyance | temporary supression |
| abject | miserable; pitiful |
| abjure | reject |
| abrogate | abolish |
| abut | to touch |
| accede | express approval |
| accretion | grow in size or amount |
| accrue | accumulate by additions |
| acme | highest point |
| acquiesce | to agree; comply quietly |
| acrimony | bitterness |
| admonish | caution or repremand |
| adulation | high praise |
| adventitious | accidental |
| allay | to lessen |
| ambulatory | to do with walking |
| abscond | leave quickly |
| abate | reduce in amount |
| abstain | choose not to do something |
| abyss | deep deep hole |
| adulterate | make impure |
| apathy | lack or interest or emotion |
| archaic | ancient; old fashioned |
| ardor | intense feeling; passion |
| assauge | ease; make less severe |
| austere | severe or stern in appearence |
| banal | predictable; boring |
| cogent | convincing; well-reasoned |
| condone | overlook; pardon |
| corroborate | to support with evidence |
| credulous | too trusting; gullible |
| deference | respect |
| desultory | skipping from one thing to another |
| diffident | lacking self confidence |
| dissemble | deceive; present a false appearence |
| dogma | firmly held opinion |
| erudite | learned, scholarly |
| esoteric | understood by few |
| exigent | imperative |
| foment | arouse; excite |
| ingenuous | innocence; child-like |
| inimical | unfriendly |
| laconic | using few words |
| mitigate | to ease; soften; lessen |
| obviate | not needed |
| onerous | burdensome |
| opprobrium | public disgrace |
| perfidious | willing to break trust |
| precipitate | abrupt and hurried |
| prodigal | wasteful; lavish |
| propitiate | to appease; conciliate |
| propriety | correct behavior; mannered |
| quiescent | motionless; still |
| reticent | silent; observed |
| vex | annoy |
| aspersion | false rumor; damaging report |
| blithe | joyful, without any apparent thought |
| callous | insensitive, thick-skinned |
| capacious | large and roomy |
| capitulate | submit completely, surrender |
| censure | criticize and find fault with |
| compendious | summarizing completely, and briefly |
| contumacious | rebellious |
| dearth | lack of, scarcity |
| descry | discover or reveal; catch sight of |
| destitute | poor, poverty. :( |
| didactic | excessively instructive |
| discursive | wandering from thing to thing; rambling |
| credence | accepting of something as true or real |
| deft | has skills, dexteritous |
| derogate | to belitte; disparage |
| compunctious | feeling guilty |
| confluence | meeting place |
| pusillanimous | cowardly |
| fugacious | lasting a short time |
| nefarious | wicked in the extreme |
| susurration | whisper; soft murmur |
| myrmidon | a devoted follower! |
| pecuniary | having to do with money |
| tyro | novice |
| salubrious | healthful; having good health |
| ineluctable | unavoidable; impossible to avoid |
| prolix | very wordy |
| celerity | to do with quickness |
| extol | high praise |
| unctuous | marked by a false or smug earnestness or agreeableness. |
| expatiate | to speak or write at length. |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical; also, capricious; impulsive. |
| chimera | a mental fabrication. |
| hebetude | mental dullness or sluggishness. |
| empyrean | the highest heaven; the heavens; the sky. |
| urbane | polite; refined; elegant. |
| bibulous | of, pertaining to, marked by, or given to the consumption of alcohol. |
| predilection | an established preference. |
| punctilious | precise; exact in the smallest particulars. |
| autochthonous | formed or existing where found. |
| vapid | dull; flat; insipid |
| dissimulate | to pretend; feign |
| preternatural | beyond of different from what is natural; inexplicable; extraordinary; abnormal. |
| conflagration | a large and destructive fire. |
| supine | lying on the back; also, indolent; listless. |
| nebbish | a weak-willed, timid, or ineffectual person. |
| sagacious | of keen penetration and judgment; wise. |
| edict | law; command; official public order |
| edify | to instruct morally and spiritually |
| effigy | stuffed doll; likeness of a person |
| effluvia | outpouring of gases or vapors |
| effulgent | brilliantly shining |
| egregious | conspicuously bad |
| egress | exit |
| emend | to correct a text |
| encumber | in hinder; burden; restrict motion |
| endemic | belonging to a particular area; inherent; indigenous |
| endogamous | marrying within a specific group due to laws or customs |
| ensconce | to settle comfortable into a place |
| ennui | boredom |
| entreat | beg; plead |
| entrenched | established solidly |
| epicure | person with refined tastes in food and wine |
| epigram | short, sitty saying or poem |
| epigraph | question at the start of a literary work |
| epithet | abusive word or phrase |
| epochal | very significant or influential; important within that time |
| equanimity | calmness; composure |
| errant | straying; mistaken; roving |
| ersatz | fake |
| eschew | to abstain from, avoid |
| esurient | greedy; avarice; hungry |
| ethereal | not earthly, spiritual |
| evanescent | momentary; short-lived |
| evince | show clearly! display |
| excoriate | to denounce |
| execrable | utterly detestable!! |
| exigent | urgent |
| expedient | convenient; efficient; practical |
| expound | to elaborate; to expand; increase |
| expurgate | censor |
| extort | obtain something by THREATS! |
| extricate | to free; untangle |
| fastidious | careful with details |
| fatuous | stupid; foolish |
| feckless | careless; irresponsible |
| fecund | fertile; fruitful |
| felicitous | suitable; appropriate; well-spoken |
| fell | cruel |
| fetid | foul smelling; putrid |
| fetter | to bind; chain; confine |
| fey | otherworldly; doomed |
| filial | appropriate for a child |
| fitful | intermittent, irregular |
| flair | natural inclination towards something |
| flout | treat contemptuously; scorn |
