| A | B |
|---|
| loquacious | very talkative, garrulous |
| lugubrious | mournful, gloomy, esp. to an exaggerated degree |
| metamorphosis | marked change of shape or appearance |
| nihilism | a doctrine holding that all values are baseless |
| obsequious | fawning, full of servile compliance |
| omnipotent | having unlimited power |
| lexicon | dictionary or stock of vocabulary |
| precipitous | extremely steep or rapid |
| quotidian | everyday, commonplace, daily |
| recapitulate | to repeat in concise form |
| sanguine | passionate, cheerful, of blood |
| soliloquy | dramtic discourse when character speaks as alone |
| supercilious | feeling or showing haughty disdain, proud |
| tautology | Needless repetition, redundancy |
| tempestuous | stormy, tumultuous |
| unctuous | exaggerated or insincere earnestness, slippery |
| usurp | to take over without right |
| vacuous | empty, stupid, devoid of matter |
| vehement | forceful or intense in expression |
| vortex | place or center regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it |
