| A | B |
|---|
| DELINEATE | to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially |
| ESOTERIC | intended for or understood by only a select few |
| MALEDICTION | a curse, expression of hatred and condemnation |
| IDIOSYNCRASY | a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify* |
| UBIQUITOUS | present or existing everywhere |
| DERELICT | someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty |
| MERETRICIOUS | superfically attractive in a showy, cheap, or vulgar way; lacking sincerity; sham, spurious |
| NEOPHYTE | a new convert, beginner, novice |
| TRAVESTY | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion |
| AGNOSTIC | one who believes that nothing is known about god; a skeptic; without faith, skeptical |
| CONVIVIAL | festive, sociable, having fun together, genial |
| EPHEMERAL | lasting only a short time, short-lived |
| MISANTHROPE | a person who hates or despises people |
| ALLAY | to calm or pacify, set to rest; to lessen or relieve |
| INORDINATE | far too great, exceeding reasonable limits, excessive |
| ALLEGE | to assert w/out proff or confirmation |
| ECHELON | one of a series of levels or grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized military unit; a steplike formation or arrangement |
| EXACERBATE | to make more violent, severe, bitter or painful |
| MACABRE | grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject |
| PAUCITY | an inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth |
| COLLUSION | secret agreement or cooperation |
| PALTRY | trifling, insignificant; mean, despicable; inferior, trashy |
| PAROXYSM | a sudden outburst; a spasm, convulsion |
| PEDANTRY | a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details |
| REDOLENT | fragrant, smelling stronglly; tending to arous memories or create an aura |
| ASKANCE | with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval |
| CHARLATAN | one who feigns knoowledge or ability; a pretender, impostor, or quack |
| FOIBLE | a weak point, failing, minor flaws |
| OBSEQUIOUS | marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons |
| PENITENT | regretful for one's sins or mistakes; one who is sorry for wrongdoing |
| AMBIENT | completely surrounding |
| CABAL | a small group working in secret |
| DEPRECATE | to express mild disapproval; to belittle |
| INEXORABLE | inflexible , beyond influence; relentless, unyielding |
| DETRITUS | loose bits and pieces of material resulting from disintegration or wearing away; fragments that result from any destruction |
| AESTHETIC | pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty; artistic |
| gregarious | living together in a herd or in a group; sociable, seeking the company of others |
| nadir | the lowest point |
| defunct | no longer in existence or functioning, dead |
| espouse | to take up and support; to become attached to, adopty; to marry |
| abstruse | extremely difficult to understand |
| cognizant | aware, knowledgeable, informed |
| decorous | well behaved, dignified, socially proper |
| ethereal | light, airy, delicate; highly refined; suggesting |
| incongruous | not in keeping, unsuitable, incompatible |
