| A | B |
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| atone | (v.) to make up for |
| bondage | (n.) slavery; any state of being bound or held down |
| credible | (adj.) believable |
| defray | (v.) to pay for |
| diligent | (adj.) hardworking, industrious, not lazy |
| doleful | (adj.) sad, dreary |
| ghastly | (adj.) frightful, horrible; deathly pale |
| hamper | (v.) to hold back |
| hew | (v.) to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to |
| impoverished | poor, in a state of poverty; depleted |
| incessant | (adj.) never stopping, going on all the time |
| intricate | (adj.) complicated, difficult to understand |
| lucid | (adj.) easy to understand, clear, rational, sane |
| posthumous | (adj.) occurring or published after death |
| prim | (adj.) overly neat, presise, proper , or formal ; prudish |
| sardonic | v grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
| superfluous | (adj.) exeeding what is sufficient or required, excess |
| supplant | (v.) to take the place of, supersede |
| taunt | (v.) to jeer at, mock (n.) an insulting or mocking remark |
| tenacious | (adj.) holding fast; holding together firmly; persistant |
| admonish | v. to caution or advise against something; to scold midly (n.) a scolding |
| breach | n. an opening gap; a violation or infraction (v.) to creat an opening to break through |
| brigand | n. a bandit |
| circumspect | adj. careful and cautious |
| commandeer | v. to seize for military or official use |
| cumbersome | adj. clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving |
| deadlock | n. a complete standstill (v.) to brung to a standstill |
| debris | n. scattered fragments; wreckage |
| diffuse | v. to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj.) wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread |
| dilemma | n. a difficult or perplexing situation ar problem |
| efface | v. to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |
| muddle | v. to make a mess of; to get by (n.) a hopeless mess |
| opinionated | adj. stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's ideas, having a closed mind |
| perennial | adj. lasting for a long time; persistant; (n.) a plant that lives for many years |
| predipose | v. to incline to beforehand |
| relinquish | v. to let go, to give up |
| salvage | n. to save from fire or shipwreck (n.) property thus saved |
| spasmodic | adj. sudden and violent but brief; fitful, intermittent |
| spurious | adj. not genuine, not valid, not true |
| unblidled | adj. uncontrolled, lacking in restraint |
| adjourn | v. To suspend proceedings to another time or place |
| alien | n. An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country ; adj. foreign |
| comely | adj. having a pleasing appearance |
| compensate | v. to make up for; repay for services |
| dissolute | adj. loose in one's morals or behavior |
| erratic | adj. not regular or consistent; different from what is normally expected; undependable |
| expulsion | n. the process of driving or forcing out |
| feint | n. a deliberately deceptive movement; v. to make a deceptive movement |
| fodder | n. food for horses or cattle; raw matierial for a designated purpose |
| fortify | v. to stengthen, build up |
| illegible | adj. difficult or impossible to read |
| jeer | v. to make fun of rudely or unkindly; n. a rude remark |
| lucrative | adj. bringing in money, profitable |
| mediocre | adj. average, ordinary, undistinguished |
| proliferate | v. to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly |
| sudjugate | v. to conquer by force, bring under complete control |
| sully | v. to soil, stain, tarnish |
| terse | adj. brief and to the point |
| tantalize | v. to tease, torment by teasing |
| unflinching | adj. firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back |
| abridge | v. to make shorter |
| adherent | n. a follower, supporter; adj. attached, sticking to |
| altercation | n. an angry argument |
| cherubic | adj. represadj. resemdling a small angel, portrayed as a child with a chubby, rosy face |
| condone | v. to pardon or overlook |
| dissent | v. to disagree; n. disagreement |
| eminent | adj. famous, outstanding, distinguished |
| exorcise | v. to drive out by magic |
| fabricate | v. to make, manufacture, invent |
| irate | adj. angry |
| marauder | n. a raider, plunderer |
| obesity | n. extreme fatness |
| pauper | n.an extremely poor person |
| pilfer | v. to steal in small quantities |
| rift | n. a split, break, breach |
| semblance | n. a likeness |
| surmount | v. to overcome, rise above |
| terminate | v. to bring to an end |
| trite | adj. commonplace; overused, stale |
| usurp | v. to seize and hold a position by force or without right |
| abscond | v. to run off and hide |
| access | n. aproach or admittance tom places, persons, things; an increase v. to obtain |
| anarchy | n. a lack of goverment and law, confusion |
| ardous | adj. hard to do, requirering much effort |
| auspicious | adj. favorable, fortunate |
| biased | adj. favoring one side unduly; prejudiced |
| daunt | v. to overcome with fear, intimidate, to dishearten, discourage |
| disentangle | v. to free from tangles or complications |
| fated | adj. determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
| hoodwink | v. to mislead by a trick, decieve |
| inanimate | adj. not having life, without energy or spirit |
| incinerate | v. to burn to ashes |
| intrepid | adj. very brave, fearless, unshakable |
| larceny | n. theft |
| pliant | adj. bending readily, easily influenced |
| pompous | adj. overly self-important in speech or manner |
| precipice | n. a very steep cliff, the brink or edge of didaster |
| rectify | v. to make right, correct |
| reprieve | n. a temporary relief or delay; v. to grant a postponement |
| revile | v. to attack with words, call bad names |
| accomplice | n. a person who takes part in a crime |
| annihilate | v. to destroy completely |
| arbitrary | adj. unreasonable, based on one's own wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness |
| brazen | adj. made of brass; shameless, impudent |
| catalyst | n. a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction; any agent that causes change |
| exodus | n. a large scale departure or flight |
| facilitate | v. to make easier, assist |
| incorrigible | adj. not able to be corrected, beyond control |
| latent | adj. hidden, present but not realized |
| militant | adj. given to fighting; active and aggresive in support; n. activist |
| morose | adj. having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable |
| opaque | adj. not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid |
| paramount | adj. chief in importance, above all others |
| prattle | v. to talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple way; n. baby talk |
| rebut | v. to offer arguments or evedents that contradict an assertion, to refute |
| reprimand | v. to scold, find falt with; n. a rebuke |
| slapdash | adj. careless and hasty |
| stagnant | adj. not running or flowing; foul from standing still; inactive, sluggish, dull |
| servitude | n. slavery, forced labor |
| succumb | v. to give way to supirior force, yield |
