| A | B |
|---|
| flotsam | the floating wreckage of a ship |
| shirk | to avoid or neglect |
| aloof | distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote |
| fugitive | running away or fleeing, as from the law |
| interrogate | examine by asking questions |
| scrupulous | conscientious and exact; painstaking; meticulous |
| presage | an indication or a warning of a future occurence; an omen. A feeling or an intuition of what is going to occur; prediction |
| mortify | to cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate |
| foolhardy | unwisely bold or venturesome; rash; reckless |
| gadabout | a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship |
| embezzle | to take for one's own use in violation of a trust |
| shoddy | cheap and shoddy; of inferior workmanship and materials |
| caveat | a warning or caution |
| muse | to be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation, to ponder. A state of meditation |
| impucunious | lacking money; penniless; poor |
| truant | one who is absent without permission, especially from school. One who shirks work or duty |
| bandy | to toss or throw back and forth. to give and receive; exchange; |
| myopic | nearsighted |
| surfeit | the state of being more than full; excess, overabundance; eating until excessively full |
| filch | to take in a furtive manner |
| sallow | of a sickly yellowish hue or complexion |
| zealot | a fanatically committed person; a fanatic |
| fawn | to exhibit affection or attempt to please; to seek favor or attention by flattery |
| reticent | inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself; silent |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris seperated from the seed in threshing grain |
