| A | B |
|---|
| perfidious | adj. deliberately faithless; treacherous |
| illicit | adj. forbidden by law; improper; unauthorized |
| discrepancy | n. an inconsistency; a contradiction; a difference |
| inundate | v. to cover by overflowing; to flood; to overwhelm(as if by a flood) |
| sumptuous | adj. costly; magnificent; luxurious; lavish |
| inscrutable | adj. mysterious or obscure; hard to grasp; not easily understood |
| abeyance | n. a temporary suspension of an activity; a state of being put aside for future action |
| primordial | adj. from earliest times; primitive; fundamental; original |
| homogeneous | adj. of the same kind or nature; composed of similar or identical parts or elements; uniform |
| pervade | v. to extend all over; to spread or be diffused throughout |
| harbinger | v. to announce; to indicate what will follow; n. a forerunner; a herald |
| emanate | v. to issue from; to originate from |
| demagogue | n. a leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions; a rabblerouser |
| prevaricate | v. to evade the truth |
| detriment | n. damage; harm; injury; anything that causes damage or injury |
| obnoxious | adj. very disagreeable; highly offensive; hateful |
| chastise | v. to punish; to criticize severely; to scold |
| irrevocable | adj. not capable of being retracted, recalled, or withdrawn; unalterable |
| deplore | v. to feel very sorry about; to regret deeply; to lament; to disapprove of |
| intercede | v. to plead, or petition, on another's behalf; to act as a mediator in a dispute |
