| A | B |
|---|
| acute | very great; sharp; severe |
| anonymous | having an unknown author |
| apprehensive | fearful; frightened; uneasy; anxious |
| arrogant | showing too much self-importance; filled with self-importance; overly proud and vain |
| bestow | to award; to give, as an honor or gift |
| donor | one who gives; a person who gives or contributes |
| phobia | extreme fear; a continuing abnormally extreme fear of a particular situation |
| prominent | obvious; very noticeable |
| prudent | careful and wise; cautious |
| recipient | one who recieves |
| absurd | ridiculous; opposed to common sense |
| adhere | to stick firmly |
| affluent | rich; well to do |
| alienate | to push away; to separate emotionally |
| assess | to judge; to evaluate; to decide on the quality or value of (something) |
| compile | to create by gathering information; to gather together in an organized form, such as a list |
| contempt | disprect; a feeling that a person or thin is inferior and undesirable |
| defect | a fault; imperfection |
| doctrine | a teaching; the strict teachings of a religion, political, or other group |
| dogmatic | one-sided; opinionated; stating an opinion as if it were a fact |
| concede | to admit to something |
| conservative | traditional; tending to resist change |
| contrary | totally different; opposite; conflicting |
| denounce | to condemn; express disapproval of |
| deter | to discourage; to prevent |
| disclose | to reveal; to make known |
| scapegoat | someone to blame for the mistakes of others |
| superficial | lacking depth or meaning; shallow |
| sustain | to continue; to keep something going |
| transition | a change; a change from one activity, condition, or location to another |
| compensate | to pay; to make suitable payment to |
| conceive | to think of; imagine |
| derive | to get; to recieve from a source |
| diversity | variety |
| inhibit | to hold back |
| moderate | average; medium; not extreme in quality, degree, or amount |
| supplement | to add to, expecially to make up for a lack (of something) |
| surpass | to go beyond in achievement or quality; to do better than |
| tentative | not definite; not final |
| verify | to test or check the truth or accuracy of something; prove |
| alter | to change |
| ample | plenty of; more than enough |
| blunt | honest to the point of rudeness; straightforward and brief, often rudely do |
| chronic | constant; continuing; lasting a long time |
| chronological | arranged as events happened; in the time order in which events happened |
| optimist | a hopeful person; someone who expects a good outcome |
| pretense | a false reason; a false show or claim |
| prolong | to make longer; to make something last longer |
| refrain | to stop oneself; to hold oneself back from doing somehting |
| remove | regret; a strong feeling of regret and guilt |
