| A | B |
|---|
| bas-relief | sculpture whose figures are somewhat raised |
| debase | to lower in quality or degrade |
| proclivity | a natural inclination |
| leaven | a substance like yeast; to provide a lightening influence |
| legerdemain | magic tricks |
| leverage | the action of a lever; power to influence |
| levitate | to rise or float |
| levity | lightness in speech or behavior; frivolity |
| penchant | a strong inclination or liking |
| ponderous | extremely heavy; unwieldy; dull or tedius |
| imponderable | unable to be assessed or measured |
| preponderant | superior in number, force, or power |
| echelon | a level of command; a formation of troops |
| transcendent | going beyond the limits of ordinatry experience |
| declivity | a downword slope |
| incumbent | a person who holds an office; required as a duty |
| recumbent | reclining |
| succumb | to yield, give in; to die |
| hypochondria | the conviction that one is ill or in pain |
| hypothesis | theory or explanation for proof or disproof; an assumption |
| cataclysm | a large-scale disaster that permanantly alters the earth |
| catapult | ancient device for hurlin missiles; modern device for launching aircraft |
| subjective | concentrating on the selft; relating to personal opinions and thoughts |
| sublimate | turn aside an instinct |
| suborn | induce a person to commit a misdeed |
| subterfuge | a device to hide or avoid something |
| verisimilitude | a thing that appears true |
| verity | the condition of truth |
| aver | to affirm |
