| A | B |
|---|
| peruse | to read over in an attentive but leisurely manner |
| plebian | of the common people, coarse or crude in a common way |
| predilection | a preference for something based on experience |
| propensity | a natural inclination or preference |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage, timid, cowardly |
| reprobate | a morally corrupt or thoroughly bad person |
| sacrosanct | treated as if holy and immune from criticism |
| sensuous | relating to sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch |
| staid | self-restrained, formal, serious, grave |
| supercilious | arrogant, superior, haughty |
| temporal | limited by time, earthly time |
| trepidation | suspicion or fear, nervous agitation |
| turgid | bloated, swollen; excessive in speech or written word |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to one's wife |
| vacuous | empty or lacking ideas and/or intelligence |
| verbiage | unnecessary numbers of words with little value or content |
| vindictive | vengeful, retaliatory |
| wane | to diminish, become less, near the end |
| zephyr | a warm gentle breeze from the west |
| pellucid | transparent, clear and easy to understand |
