| A | B |
|---|
| ambulatory | able to walk or move around; ant-bedridden |
| amenable | open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, alleable; syn- docile, obedient, tractable; ant-unwilling |
| amorphous | shapeless, haveing no definite form; ant- structured |
| buoyant | capable of floating, also cheerful; ant- likely to sink |
| burgeon | to sprout, to newly emerge; ant- shrival or die; wither |
| contentious | quarrelsome, stirring controversy; syn- bellicose, belligerent, pugnacious, quarrelsome |
| discord | lack of agreement, tension, strife; syn- contetion, dissension, strife, variance; ant- harmony |
| discursive | rambling, moving from one topic to another randomly; ant- conase |
| empirical | based on observation or experiment and not on theory; ant- theoretical |
| indolence | laziness; syn- bovine, slothful; ant- industrious |
| ineptness | lack of competence or judgement; syn- gauche, maladroit; ant-expertise |
| ostentatious | showy, pretentious; syn- pompous, pretentious; ant- modest |
| parsimony | stinginess, frugality; ant- prodigality, extravagance |
| penitent | showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant; syn- compunctual, contrite, remorseful, repentant; ant- unrepentant |
| reprove | to scold or rebuke for a misdeed usually with kindly intent; syn- admonish, castigate, chastise, chide, rebuke, reproach; ant- approve, applaud |
| sated | satisfied fully, to indulge to excess; syn- cloyed, glutted, gorged, palled, staiated, surfeited; ant- ravenous |
| serene | calm, placid; syn- placid, tranquil; ant- agitated |
| tangential | slightly connected, divergent; ant- pertinent |
| tempestuous | turbulent, stormy; ant- calm |
| untenable | something not able to be defended; ant- defensible |
| vaciliating | changing, fluctuating; ant- static |
| venerate | to honor, revere; syn- adore, revere, worship |
| volatile | quickly changeable, easily vaporized; ant- static; unchangeable |
| voluble | ability to use words easily, fuent and glib; syn- gamulous, loquacious; ant- taciturn |
| zeal | enthusiasm, fervor; ant- lack of enthusiasm |
