| A | B |
|---|
| contentious | quarrelsome; argumentative |
| distend | to swell out or expand |
| portend | to serve as an omen or a warning |
| detract | to reduce the importance of |
| retract | to take back; disavow |
| verify | to test the truth or accuracy of something |
| contract | to enter into or make an agreement |
| veracity | truthfulness |
| verdict | the finding of a jury in a trial |
| apprehensive | uneasy. afraid |
| comprehend | understand |
| prehensile | appendage adapted for seizing, grasping, or holding |
| adhere | to attach; stick; cling; hold |
| cohesive | well integrated; sticking together |
| incoherent | logically disconnected |
| incline | slope |
| proclivity | a natural propensity or inclination; predisposition |
| decline | to turn down |
| loquacious | very talkative; full of excessive talk; wordy |
| ventriloquist | art of projecting one's voice so that it seems to come from another |
| circumlocution | indirect or roundabout language |
| impede | to retard or obstruct the progress of; hinder |
| pedestrian | undistinguished; ordinary; lacking wit or imagination |
| expedition | a journey |
| expedite | to speed up the progress of; accelerate; hasten |
| question | to express doubt about; to ask |
| requirement | 1. a necessity; something obligatory |
| prerequisite | something previously required |
| inquire | to seek information by asking a question |
| repeat | to say or do again |
| appetite | desire for food or learning |
| impetuous | ; impulsive with lack of thought or deliberation |
| sequel | something that follows; a continuation |
| persecute | to oppress; harass; distress; worry; annoy |
| execute | to put to death |
| revert | (to turn back), or to the contrary; to reverse. to change back |
| avert | (to turn aside), or away |
| conversion | 2. something that is changed from one use, function, or purpose to another |
| devour | to eat up greedily |
| voracious | 2. having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy |
| insomnia | Chronic inability to fall asleep or remain asleep |
| somnolent | 2. Inducing or tending to induce sleep |
| somnambulist | one who walks in his sleep; a (sleepwalker) |
| aberrant | markedly different from an accepted norm |
| errant | . wandering; roving, especially in search of adventure |
| errand | a short trip taken to perform a specified task |
| legible | able to be read |
| lectern | a reading desk |
| puncture | to pierce with a pointed object |
| punctilious | strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct; meticulous |
