| A | B |
|---|
| laconic | using few words |
| harrowing | frightening |
| aptitude | natural ability or capacity for learning |
| endure | to carry on through despite hard times; to put up with |
| chronic | continuous; going on for a long time |
| giddy | light-headed sensation, dizzy, frivolous |
| irascible | easily angered, irritable |
| cower | to shrink away from in fear |
| gossamer | something delicate and light as cobwebs |
| queue | to form a line or wait in line |
| myriad | an extremely large number |
| accolade | an award or honor, approval, praise |
| grandiloquent | trying to impress others wiht big words or gestures |
| caucus | a meeting of a political party to make decisions |
| dromedary | one-humped camel |
| demonic | person who works like a devil or pushes other people to work like one; evil |
| noxious | physically or mentally destructive |
| proficient | to be very good at something |
| harangue | to lecture or scold |
| atrophy | to wither away from disuse |
