| A | B |
|---|
| abstemious | temperate; sparing in eating and drinking |
| carousal | a drinking party; a drunken revelry |
| inebriated | drunk; intoxicated |
| sobriety | temperance; abstinence |
| sot | drunkard; a person made foolish by excessive drinking |
| teetotaler | a person who totally abstains from alcohol |
| carrion | decaying flesh of a carcass |
| expurgate | to remove objectionable material from a book; purify |
| immaculate | spotless; absolutely clean; faultless |
| sloven | a person habitually untidy, dirty, or careless in dress, habits, etc. |
| sordid | filthy; vile (often refers to moral filth) |
| squalid | filthy from neglect; dirty; degraded |
| adjacent | lying near or next to; bordering; adjoining - synonym of CONTIGUOUS |
| approximate | adj: nearly correct OR verb: to give an estimate |
| contiguous | touching; adjoining - synonym of ADJACENT |
| environs | districts surrounding a place; suburbs |
| juxtapose | to place side by side; to put close together |
| propinquity | kinship OR nearness of place; proximity |
| analogy | similarity; comparison |
| arbitrate | to decide a dispute, acting as a judge |
| axiom | self-evident truth; maxim |
| bigotry | narrow-mindedness; intolerance |
| cogitate | to think over; to consider with care; to ponder |
| dogmatic | opinionated; asserting opinions as if they are facts without proof |
| crux | most important point; essential part |
| eclectic | choosing (ideas, methods, etc.) from variuous sources; selective |
| fallible | liable to be mistaken |
| hypothetical | supposed; having the characteristics of a supposition (theory) made as a basis for reasoning or research |
| illusion | misleading appearance; false impression, misconception |
| orthodox | generally accepted, especially in religion; conventional; approved |
| paradoxical | self-contradictory, though possibly true nevertheless |
| plausible | apparently trustworthy; superficially true or reasonable |
| rational | able to think clearly; having the power to reason OR intelligent; sensible; sane |
| rationalize | to invent excuses for one's actions, desires, failures, etc. |
| sophistry | clever but deceptive reasoning |
| tenable | capable of being maintained or defended; defensible |
| amorphous | shapeless; having no definite form; unorganized |
| contour | outline of a figure |
| distort | to twist out of shapel to change from the true meaning |
| malleable | capable of being shaped by hammering; adaptable; pliant |
| sinuous | beding in and out; winding; serpentine |
| symmetrical | balanced in arrangement; identical on both sides of a central line |
