| A | B |
| admonish | warn |
| affinity | attraction towards |
| annihilate | destroy |
| bipartisan | representing both sides |
| circumlocution | roundabout way of talking |
| conducive | contributive |
| conflagration | fire |
| contingent | dependent |
| credible | believable |
| equanimity | calmness of mind |
| extemporaneous | unplanned; done on the spot |
| facet | aspect; phase; part |
| fallacy | error; lie |
| genocide | killing of a race |
| gregarious | friendly |
| grievance | complaint |
| impartiality | state of having no bias; fairness |
| impediment | hindrance |
| impending | approaching inevitably |
| ingenuity | cleverness |
| innocuous | harmless |
| inquisitive | questioning; curious |
| insidious | treacherous; sly |
| intangible | not able to be touched |
| irrevocable | not able to be taken back |
| juxtapose | place side by side to compare |
| magnanimous | generous; having a kind spirit |
| obdurate | stubborn |
| omnipotent | all-powerful |
| perennial | everlasting |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| perturb | disturb |
| precursor | forerunner |
| quintessence | most perfect embodiment of a quality |
| rectify | correct; make amends |
| resilient | able to bounce back |
| resolute | determined |
| salient | obvious; noticeable |
| senile | having qualities of old age |
| surreptitious | secretive |
| tenuous | thin; lacking support |
| trivial | unimportant |
| unobtrusive | not obvious; hidden |
| visage | face |
| sonorous | loud; full of sound |
| prevalent | widespread; dominant |
| intermittent | pausing at intervals |
| infringe | break or violate |
| fractious | unruly; quarrelsome |
| cogitation | act of thinking; meditation |