| A | B |
| Auspices | Support, guidance, or protection |
| Auspicious | Marked by success |
| Explicate | To explain clearly and thoroughly |
| Implicate | To involve or connect in an incriminating way |
| Introspective | Inclined to examine one’s own thoughts and feelings |
| Perspicuity | The quality of being easy to understand; clearness |
| Plait | A braid |
| Pliant | Easily bent; pliable |
| Specious | Seeming true or correct but actually false |
| Speculate | To meditate on a subject; to wonder |