| A | B |
|---|
| adulation | n. flattery, admiration |
| baleful | adj. destructive, deadly, menacing |
| capricious | adj. fickle, incalcuable |
| derogatory | adj. expression; a low opinion |
| enervate | v. weaken |
| florid | adj. flowery; ruddy |
| gadfly | n. an irritating person; animal biting fly |
| hibernal | adj. wintry; pertaining to winter |
| ignoble | adj. of lowly origin; unworthy |
| lugubrious | adj. mornful;doleful;dejected;sad |
| macabre | adj. gruesome;grisly |
| nebulous | adj. vague; hazy; cloudy |
| obdurate | adj. stubborn; impenitent |
| pejorative | adj. having a deteriorating effort; declining; becoming worse |
| quell | v. put down; quiet |
| raucous | adj. harsh and shrill; hoarse; loud and rowdy |
| seraph | n. high-ranking, six winged angel |
| venal | adj. capable of being bribed |
| vicarious | adj. acting as a substitute; done by a deputy |
| yeoman | n. a man who owns a small estate; middle class farmer |
| advocate | v. urge; plead for |
| balmy | adj. mild; fragrant; pleasant; soothing |
| carnal | adj. fleshy; bodily; material or worldly; not spiritual |
| desecrate | v. profane; violate the sanctity of |
| ennui | n. boredom |
| foil | v. defeat; frustrate |
| hilarity | n. boisterous gaiety; noisy merriment |
| illusive | adj. deceiving |
| magniloquent | adj. boastful; pompous |
| nefarious | adj. very wicked |
| obese | very fat |
| pellucid | transparent |
| quixotic | foolishly idealistic visionary |
| ravage | plunder; loot |
| serried | crowed |
| servile | slavish |
| similitude | similarity |
| sinister | evil |
| skittish | frisky |
| verdant | green and fresh |
| affable | adj. courteous; friendly; pleasant and easy to approach |
| banal | adj. commonplace; hackneyed; trite |
| carnivorous | adj. meat-eating |
| despicable | adj. contemptible; disliked; looked down upon |
| enunciate | v. speak distinctively |
| forment | v. instigate; incite; stir up (trouble) |
| hirsute | adj. hairy; shaggy; bristly |
| ingenious | adj. clever |
| lurid | adj. startling;sensational; vivid in. a harsh or shocking way; wild |
| magnitude | n. greatness; extent |
| negation | n. denial |
| objective | adj. not influenced |
| penchant | n. strong inclination; liking |
| raze | v. destroy completely |
| sloth | n. laziness |
| slovenly | adj. untidy; careless |
| slough | v. cast off |
| sobriety | n. soberness |
| sobriquet | n. nickname |
| viable | adj. capable of maintaining life |
| noisome | adj. injurous to health; harmful, foul-smelling |
| obsequious | adj. slavish attentive; servile, sycophatic |
| peripatetic | adj. moving (about) itnerant |
| peripheral | adj. marginal, outer |
| rebate | n. discount |
| recalcitrant | adj. stubborn |
| recant | v. withdraw |
| recluse | n. hermit |
| solvent | adj. dissolving; lossening, able to pay all debts |
| virulent | adj. extremely poisonous; malicious; deadly |
| affected | adj. artificial; pretend |
| baneful | adj. ruinous; poisionous |
| carousal | n. drunken revel; noisy party |
| carping | tending to find fault; critical |
| carte blanche | n. unlimited authority or freedom |
| destitute | adj. extremely poor |
| ephemeral | adj. short-lived; fleeting |
| foppish | adj. vain about dress and appearance |
| hovel | n. shack; hut |
| inimical | adj. unfriendly; hostile |
| innocuous | adj. harmless |
| maladroit | adj. clumsy; bungling |
| neophyte | n. beginner; amateur |
| nocturnal | adj. done at night |
| obligatory | adj. binding; required |
| obscure | adj. vague unclear; dark |
| penurious | adj. stingy; parsimonious |
| perfunctory | adj. superficial; not through |
| reactionary | adj. recoiling from progress; retrograde |
| solstice | n. point at which the sun is farthest from the equator |
| affluence | n. abundance; wealth |
| agility | n. nimbleness; dexterity |
| celerity | n. speed; rapidity |
| devoid | adj. lacking |
| equanimity | n. evenness of mind or temper; composure |
| foray | n. raid |
| hubbub | n. confused uproar |
| insinuate | v. hint; imply |
| malediction | n. curse |
| ragamuffin | n. person wearing tattered clothing |
