| A | B |
|---|
| to profane | to treat something holy in a disrespectful way |
| profane | blasphemous; showing disrespect for God or for holy things by using religious words wrongly |
| abhor | to hate and be disgusted by a way of thinking because you think it's morally wrong |
| abhorrent | detested, rejected, very very disliked |
| abhorrence | aversion; intense disapproval; loathing; repugnance |
| aficionado | someone very interested in an activity or pasttime who knows a lot about it |
| ambient | surrounding you in an environment |
| ambiance | the qualities of a place that make you feel a particular way about it |
| to -- | fallacious | fallacy | -- | containing a wrong idea | a mistaken belief; bad reasoning |
| -- | fatalistic | fatalism | -- | leaving everything up to fate | the belief nothing you do will keep something from happening |
| -- | gratuitous | -- | done for no reason--and in a way that is offensive; done for free; voluntary |
| to finesse | -- | finesse | handle a situation well but a little deceitfully; successfully, slyly avoid blame--to sidestep the real issue | -- | tactful treatment; skillful handling of a difficult situation 2. elegant and refined physical skill |
| -- | hedonistic | hedonist/hedonism | -- | devoted to pleasure as a way of life | devotion to pleasure as a way of life 2. the philosophical principle that pleasure is morality's source |
| to impend | impending | -- | to threaten to happen; menace | likely to happen soon (and be bad) | -- |
| --- | imperious | --- | --- | arrogant: haughty and domineering 2. giving orders expecting to be obeyed without question | --- |
