| A | B |
|---|
| fortitude | (noun) patient courage in facing pain or danger; endurance |
| condescend | (verb) to stoop or do something you think is beneath you |
| evolve | (verb) to develop gradually |
| notoriety | (noun) fame, usually in an unfavorable sense; a bad reputation |
| assert | (verb) to express or declare firmly; to defend or claim |
| acquittal | (noun) a setting free by judgment of a court |
| elite | (adj) of or suitable for a select group;group (n) a group or part of a group regarded as the best, most skilled |
| mentor | (noun) a wise and trusted advisor; a counselor |
| inarticulate | (adj) unable to speak clearly or to use words |
| contemptuous | (adj) showing or feeling scorn; disdainful |
| pauper | (noun) a person who is very poor, one dependent on public charity |
| excerpt | (noun) a selected passage or scene from a literary work; (verb) to quote |
| analogy | (noun) a likeness between different things; a similarity |
| ethical | (adj) pertaining to right and wrong; moral |
| prophetic | (adj) relating to someone or something that foretells events; predictive |
| heresy | (noun) a belief different from accepted doctrine |
| paternal | (adj) inherited from or related through one's father; fatherly |
| antiquity | (noun) ancient times; a thing or people of ancient times |
| posthumous | (adj) coming after death |
| electorate | (noun) all persons having the right to vote |
