| A | B |
|---|
| apathetic | feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent |
| avarice | greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain |
| burgeon | grow forth; send out buds; grow or develop rapidly |
| debacle | sudden downfall; complete disaster |
| destitute | extremely poor; utterly lacking; devoid |
| encroaching | intrusive |
| exhort | urge on or encourage, especially by shouts |
| grandiose | impressive from inherent grandeur; large and impressive, in size, scope or extent |
| ineffable | unutterable; cannot be expressed in speech |
| neophyte | recent convert to a belief; one newly initiated |
| oracle | answer of god; communications, revelations, or messages delivered by god to the prophets |
| parch | burn surface of; roast over fire, as dry grain; dry to extremity |
| prodigious | impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous |
| ramshackle | of very poor quality or condition; loose-jointed; ill-made; out of gear or repair |
| renounce | abandon; disown; turn away from; give up |
| scrupulous | exactly and carefully conducted; by extreme care and great effort; cautious |
| teem | be abuzz; be full of; move in large numbers |
| unfathomable | difficult or impossible to understand; difficult or impossible to measure |
| venerable | deserving high respect; impressive by reason of age; profoundly honored |
| verbose | wordy; using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of wo |
