| A | B |
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| guile | n. craftiness; deceit; cunning |
| proffer | v. to offer; n. an offer |
| seraphic | adj. angelic; of the highest order of angels |
| amorphous | adj. shapeless; of no particular form or type; not organized |
| decorum | n. proper action, speech, and dress; good manners and behavior; polite behavior |
| protege | n. someone whose welfare or career is guided and helped by a more influential person |
| sanguine | adj. naturally cheerful and hopeful; confident; having a ruddy complexion |
| doggerel | n. badly written or trivial verse, often with a singsong rhythm |
| ascetic | n. a person who practices unusual self-denial or discipline, often for religious reasons; adj. self-denying |
| facile | adj. easily done; performing or working with ease; adroit; not sincere or profound; superficial |
| implicit | adj. implied; naturally involved though not obviously evident; unquestioning, absolute |
| nondescript | adj. not having individual characteristics; lacking in distinctive qualities; drab; hard to describe |
| sundry | adj. various; miscellaneous |
| inveigle | v. to win over with trickery or flattery; to entice; to coax with deceitful talk; to dupe |
| dogma | n. a belief or set of beliefs held to be true, especially by a church or other authority; a doctrine |
| scurrilous | adj. given to the use of abusive or indecent language; foulmouthed |
| parsimonious | adj. too economical; stingy; miserly |
| exhort | v. to urge strongly; to advise or warn earnestly; to admonish |
| nonentities | n. a person or thing of little or no importance; something that does not exist or that exists only in the imagination |
| vociferous | adj. loud and noisy; clamorous; demanding |
