| A | B |
|---|
| brisque | abrupt, blunt |
| demagogue | a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| cajole | to coax or persuade through flattery or artifice |
| ennui | weariness and discontent from lack of occupation. |
| anomalous | abnormal, irregular |
| contrive | to plan with ingenuity, invent |
| disabuse | to free from deception or error,set right in ideas or thinking |
| arbiter | one having power to decide a matter at issue |
| bizarre | extremely strange |
| castigate | to punish severely, criticize severely |
| aspersion | a damaging or derogatory statement |
| vouchsaffe | to give or furnish condescendingly, to grant |
| megalomania | a delusion marked by a feeling of power |
| surreptitious | stealthy, secret |
| transmute | to change from one nature, substance, or form to another |
| immutable | not subject to change, constant |
| transgress | to bo beyond a limit or boundary, to sin, violate a law |
| heinous | very wicked, offensive, hateful |
| insurgent | one who rebels or rises against authority |
| fetter | a chain or shackle placed on the feet |
| sinecure | a position requiring little or no work, an easy job |
| vicarious | performed, suffered or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another |
