| A | B |
|---|
| esoteric | (adj.) private knowledge, restricted to a small group |
| pandemonium | (n) hell; wild uproar |
| specious | (adj) showy, having a false look |
| audacity | (n) boldness |
| elusive | (adj) hard to comprehend or define |
| harbingers | (n) a person who brings about change |
| copiously | (adv) existing in large quantities |
| deft | (adj) characterized by facility and skill |
| arduous | (adj) difficult |
| valediction | (n) the act of bidding farwell |
| benevolent | (adj) marked by or disposed to doing good |
| meager | (adj) having very little |
| incipient | (adj) beginning to come into being |
| malevolent | (adj) having or arriving form intense vicious will |
| capricious | (adj) impulsive, unpredictable |
| emissary | (n) secret agent or representative |
| imperious | (adj) dominant, marked by arrogant assurance |
| prowess | (n) distinguised bravery |
| plaintive | (adj) expression of suffering or woe |
| improvident | (adj) not providing for the future |
| cowries | (n) glossy and often brightly colored shells |
