| A | B |
|---|
| abate | to make less, decrease, diminish; to get rid of and make less (mosquito abatement) |
| adulation | praise or flattery, adoration hero worship |
| anathema | an object intense dislike, malediction, imprecation; someone or something that people do not like |
| astute | shrew, crafty showing practical wisdom, acute sagacious |
| avarice | a greedy desire, |
| culpable | deserving blame worthy of comdemnation, guilty, blameworthy |
| dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate, stalling slow |
| egregious | standing out in a crowd, flagrant |
| equivocate | to speak in a way the allows for more then one interpretation, to talk out of both sides of ones mouth |
| evanescent | vanishing, soon passing away,ephemeral |
| irresolute | unable to make up ones mind, indecisive, wavering |
| nebulous | vague; not easy to understand; cloudlike resembling a cloud, hazy fuzzy cloudy |
| novice | one who is just a beginner at some activity, neophyte, tyro. trainee |
| penury | extreme poverty, destitution, want |
| pretentious | ; acting as if you are better than some else; done for show striving to make a big impression, inflated affected |
| recapitulate | to review a series of facts to sum up, go over |
| resuscitate | to revive bring back restore, reanimate |
| slovenly | piggish; untidy dirty careless, slipshod, lax |
| supposition | hint, guesss, something assumed or taken for granted, presumption |
| torpid | inactive sluggish dull |
