| A | B |
| penury | for want of the green stuff,poverty |
| vicarious | secondhand |
| ephemeral | impermanent |
| bovine | calm patient; cow like |
| nostalgia | want for the good old days; home sickness |
| cacophonous | harsh sounds |
| carnivorous | eating only meat |
| clandestine | private; secret |
| badinage | banter |
| anodyne | false statment made to alliviate fear |
| persiflage | light banter |
| cliche | a hackneyed phrase |
| evanescent | fleeting-lasting a very short time |
| eulogistic | laudatory |
| euthanasia | painless death of a person |
| parsimonious | stingy |
| destitute | in want |
| opulence | immense wealth |
| vicariously | adverb discribing the manner of responding to ones acts |
| parsimony | stinginess |
| indigence | poverty |
| destitution | poverty |
| evanescence | impermanence |
| euphony | pleasing sound |
| euphemistic | subsituting of offensive words |
| euphoria | sense of well being |
| bromide | trite remark |
| platitude | banal remark |
| affluence | wealth |
| eulogise | to praise |