| A | B |
|---|
| abjure | renounce under oath |
| anecdote | story or joke |
| averse | opposed |
| circumspect | paying close attention to circumstances or consequences |
| contiguous | sharing a common border |
| defunct | no longer existing |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong emotion |
| engender | to cause to exist |
| facilitate | make easy |
| imperturbable | unable to be upset or excited |
| infidel | a person who does not delieve in religion or who adheres to a religion other than one's own |
| invective | insulting |
| megalopolis | very large, heavily populated city |
| nonentity | person or thing with no special or interesting qualities |
| pernicious | having a harmful effect |
| prelude | action or event serving as an introduction to something more important |
| prostrate | lying stretched on the ground with one's face downward |
| renegade | one who abandons and betrays something for another |
| sequester | isolate or hide something or someone |
| temporize | yield to currect conditions |
