| A | B |
|---|
| sagacious | wise |
| erudition | deep and extensive learning |
| countenance | aspect, appearance |
| felicitous | appropriate |
| myrmidons | faithful, unquestioning follower |
| suborned | to induce to commit evil |
| unrenumerative | not yielding profit |
| augur | to predict |
| excresence | an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement |
| strategem | a clever, often underhanded scheme |
| subterfuge | a deceptive strategem |
| pugilistic | the skill, practice, or sport of fighting |
| repudiated | to reject the validity or authority of |
| prodigious | impressively great in size |
| imperious | arrogantly domineering or overbearing |
| imprecation | a curse |
| execrate | to declare to be hateful |
| propound | to propose |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| ignominious | marked by shame or disgrace |
| interpose | to come between |
| parley | a discussion or conference |
| morose | sullenly melancholy |
| capricious | impulsive and unpredictable |
| clemency | a disposition to show mercy, esp. toward an offender or an enemy |
| audacious | fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold |
| remonstrance | expression of protest, complaint, or reproof, esp. a formal statement of greivances. |
