| A | B |
|---|
| burnish | to make smooth or glossy by rubbing; polish; gloss, brightness, luster |
| ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling; bubbling |
| delectable | delightful; highly enjoyable; deliciously flavored; savory; and appealing or appetizing food or dish |
| abrogate | to repeal; cancel; declare null and void |
| asperity | roughness; severity; bitterness or tartness |
| detritus | loose bits and pieces or material resulting from disintegration or wearing away; fragments that resuls from any destruction |
| desuetude | disuse; the state of being discontinued |
| ambient | completely surrounding |
| cabal | a small group working in secret |
| deprecate | to express mild disapproval; to belittle |
| eclectic | drawn from different sources; one whose beliefs are drawn from various sources |
| capitulate | to surrender unconditionally; give in |
| precipitate | to cause to happen abruptly; unwisely; hastily |
| heresy | a belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs |
| sequester | to set apart; seperate for special purpose; to take possession of and hold out in custody |
| moribund | dying; on the way out |
| necromancer | one who claims to reveal or influence the future thorugh magic, especially communication with the dead; in general, a magician or wizard |
| winnow | to get rid of something unwanted; delete; to sift thought to obtain what is desirable; to remove the chaff from wheat by blowing air on it; blow on; fan |
| flaccid | limp; not firm; lacking vigor or effectivness |
| rife | common; prevalent; happening often; full; abounding; plentiful; abundant |
| inexorable | inflexible; beyond influence; relentless; unyielding |
| onerous | burdensome; opporessive; involving hardship or difficulty |
| emanate | to proceed or come forth from some point of origin; issue; originate; to send forth |
| impecunious | having little or no money |
| rudiments | the parts of any subject or discipline that are learned first; the earliest stages of anything |
