| A | B |
|---|
| inordinate | Exceeding reasonable limits; immoderate |
| emulation | Effort or ambition to equal or surpass another; imitation of another |
| egregious | conspicuously offensive; flagrant |
| nefarious | Infamous by way of being extremely wicked. |
| lethargic | sluggish, inactive, apathetic |
| remunerative | profitable (financially) |
| inveteracy | firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic. |
| mollify | to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease |
| consternation | a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay |
| deferential | showing respect or courtesy |
| obstreperous | resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly |
| pugilistic | a person who fights with the fists; a boxer |
| inadvertence | unintentional |
| ruminate | to meditate or muse; ponder |
| demented | insane; mad |
| aberration | deviation from truth or moral rectitude |
| intermittent | stopping and starting at intervals |
| ponderous | unwieldy from weight or bulk; lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull |
| bohemian | a person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behavior |
| jingoism | extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotiotism |
| polarize | to divide into two sharply opposing faction or political groups |
| ambivalent | coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, object or idea |
| recluse | a person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and/or solitude |
| oblique | indirect or evasive in meaning |
| terse | brief and to the point; effectively concise |
| abeyance | the condition of being temporarily set aside |
| pecuniary | pertaining to money |
| capitulate | to surrender unconditionally; to give up resistance |
| enjambment | the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break |
| oblivious | unconscious; unaware; without rememberance or memory |
