| A | B |
|---|
| Revere | To regard with respect tinged with awe. |
| Serene | Calm, peaceful, or tranquil. |
| Subtle | Fine or delicate in meaning or intent;difficult to perceive or understand. |
| Superfluous | Being more than is sufficient or required; excessive |
| Taciturn | Reserved or uncommunicative in speech |
| Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. |
| Ascend | To move, climb, or go upward. |
| Austere | Severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance |
| Autonomous | Acting independently or having freedom to do so |
| Banal | So lacking originality as to be obvious and boring. |
| Engender | Cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition). |
| Innocuous | Not harmful or offensive. |
| Insipid | Lacking flavor or taste or weak. |
| Lament | A passionate expression of grief or sorrow or mourn. |
| Laud | Praise (a person or their achievements) highly, especially in public |
| Obscure | Not discovered or known about; uncertain |
| Ostentatious | Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract noise. |
| Prodigal | Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagent |
| Repudiate | Refuse to accept or be associated with; denial |
| Reticence | The state of being silent, reserved or quiet. |
| altruistic | Showing genuine concern for others. |
| ambivalent | having contradictory ideas about something |
| angular | having angles or corners. |
| arrogant | exaggerated and unjustifiable feelings of self importance. |
| aversion | A strong dislike. |
| discern | To perceive or recognize something. |
| disdain | The feeling that something is unworthy of respect. |
| disparage | To regard something as being of little worth. |
| disparity | A great difference. |
| embellish | To beautify or enhance. |
| BIGOT | NARROW-MINDED PERSON |
| COUNTERFEIT | FAKE |
| ENFRANCHISE | GIVE VOTING RIGHTS |
| HAMPER | HINDER |
| ABHOR | HATE |
| NOXIOUS | HARMFUL |
| PLACID | CALM |
| REMUNERATION | PAYMENT FOR SERVICES |
| TALISMAN | AMULET OR CHARM |
| KINDLE | START A FIRE |
| Abrasive | rough; coarse; harsh |
| Bilk | cheat; defraud |
| Covert | hidden; undercover |
| Engender | cause |
| Hangar | storage area (like garage) for a plane |
| Knotty | complex; difficult to solve |
| Nuance | something subtle; a fine shade of meaning |
| Plagiarism | taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas |
| Renown | fame |
| Tangent | going off the main subject |
| hypocite | a person who pretends to have virtues and beliefs that they do not possess. |
| innate | inborn;natural |
| lethargic | sluggish;apathetic |
| melancholy | a feeling of pensive sadness,usually with no obvious cause. |
| opaque | not able to see through; not transparent |
| prolific | In plants, animals, or people, Producing much fruit, foliage, or many offspring.v |
| reprove | reprimand or census |
| symmetry | the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis. |
| tranquil | free from disturbance;calm |
| venerate | regard with great respect; revere |
| Abstruse | Difficult to understand; obscure |
| Affable | Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to |
| Audacity | The willingness to take bold risks. |
| Contrite | Feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt |
| Credulous | Having or showing too great a readiness to believe things. |
| Depravity | Moral corruption; wickedness |
| Deprecate | Express disapproval of. |
| Didactic | Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. |
| Dormant | (of an animal) having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period of time. |
| enigmatic | difficult to interpret, mysterious, unfathomable |
| paradigm | a typical example or pattern of something; a model |
| proactive | creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened |
| BIGOT | NARROW-MINDED PERSON |
| COUNTERFEIT | FAKE |
| ENFRANCHISE | GIVE VOTING RIGHTS |
| HAMPER | HINDER |
| ABHOR | HATE |
| NOXIOUS | HARMFUL |
| PLACID | CALM |
| REMUNERATION | PAYMENT FOR SERVICES |
| TALISMAN | AMULET OR CHARM |
| KINDLE | START A FIRE |
| benign | harmless, gentle, not dangerous |
| Capricious | unpredictable or inconsistent |
| dawdle | waste time |
| defamation | The action of damaging someone's good reputation |
| esoteric | Intended for only a small or elite group to understand. |
| exacerbate | To make a situation or Issue worse. |
| extol | praise or applaud |
| fastidious | To be attentive to detail and accuracy |
| furtive | Attempting to avoid notice or attention |
| gregarious | To be sociable or fond of company |
| precis | summary or abstract of a text or speech |
