| A | B |
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| extricate | v. to release from an entanglement or a difficulty; to set free |
| menial | adj. of or suited to a servant; servile; n. a domestic servant; a servile person |
| rampant | adj. growing without check or restraint; flourishing; widespread |
| cajole | v. to persuade by pleasant words; to coax with flattery and insincere talk; to wheedle |
| pestilence | n. a contagious and often fatal disease that spreads rapidly; an illness of epidemic proportions; a destructive or evil influence or factor |
| anarchy | n. the absence of government or law; political disorder |
| nadir | n. the point in the celestial sphere directly below the observer and opposite the zenith; the lowest possible point |
| ethnology | n. the branch of anthropology that deals with recent societies or large groups, their distribution, characteristics, and cultures |
| impair | v. to make worse; to damage or weaken |
| commodious | adj. roomy; spacious |
| profuse | adj. giving freely, extravagant; plentiful |
| virulent | adj. very poisonous or harmful; deadly; intensely bitter or spiteful |
| strident | adj. having or making a harsh sound; shrill |
| consign | v. to deliver; to deliver as goods to be sold; to send; to hand over; to assign to an undesirable position or place |
| elocution | n. the art of public speaking; a style or manner of public speaking or reading |
| subversion | n. the overthrowing or undermining of something established, such as a government |
| cadaverous | adj. corpselike; pale and ghastly; thin and gaunt; haggard |
| incorrigible | n. a person who will not be reformed; adj. incapable of being corrected or reformed; persistently bad |
| promulgation | v. to make known to the public, declare; to make widespread |
| maim | v. to wound or injure seriously; to disable in some way; to mutilate; to cripple |
