| A | B |
|---|
| affable | friendly, easy to talk to |
| affectation | ways of behaving and talking that are not natural |
| ascertain | to discover |
| auriferous | containing gold |
| circumspect | careful and attentive |
| consensus | a generally accepted opinion in a group |
| deference | respect and politness |
| disassemble | to take apart |
| despicable | a feeling of dislike for someone or something |
| discreet | modest |
| discriminate | to treat differently; to see a difference |
| disparage | to criticize someone in a disrespectful way |
| disparity | a lack of equality and similarity in a way that is not fair |
| dissemble | to hide your real intentions and feelings on the facts |
| effigy | a model or object which represents someone |
| equanimity | calmness and self-control after a difficult situation |
| fatuous | stupid |
| ferriferous | producing iron |
| gustatory | connected with taste |
| impalpable | difficult to feel or understand |
| improvident | not giving thought to the future |
| indiscriminate | not showing careful thought or planing |
| ineffable | causing to much emotion to be described |
| ineffectual | not skilled at achieving good results |
| insipid | lacking strong taste; lacking in interest or energy |
| integument | an outer protective covering such as a shell |
| longanimity | patience |
| magnanimous | very generous and honourable towards an enemy |
| malefactor | a person who does bad or illegal things |
| morbific | able to cause disease |
| mordant | criticizing in an amusing way; |
| mutifarious | diverse |
| nefarious | evil or immoral activities |
| nescience | lack of knowledge or education |
| omniscient | having or seeming to have unlimited knowledge |
| peerless | something better than any other |
| perspicacity | ability to understand things quickly & make accurate judgements |
| perspicuity | clarity or clearness |
| presage | to show or suggest that something will happen |
| prescience | knowledge of events before they take place |
| prescient | knowing or suggesting correctly what will happen in the future |
| prospectus | a document giving details of a school, business . . |
| proviso | an agrement saying that a particular thing must happen before another |
| quasihistorical | not totally historical |
| reticent | unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings |
| sagacious | wise |
| sententious | trying to appear wise, clever and important |
| sentient | able to experience physical and emotional feelings |
| somniferous | causing or inducing sleep |
| specious | seeming to be right, but really wrong |
| specter | the influence of a person not present; ghost |
| tacit | understanding without being expressed directly |
| contigious | next to or touching another |
| tactile | related to touch |
| tangible | real; able to be seen or touched |
| torpid | not active; moving or thinking slowly as result of being sleepy or lazy |
| versimilitude | seeming to be true |
| vivacious | attractively full of energy and enthusiasm |
| viviparous | giving birth to young that was developed inside the mother |
| vociferous | loudly expressing opinions and complaints |
