| A | B |
|---|
| advocacy | support of an idea or cause |
| affinity | a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship |
| agile | characterized by ability to move quickly with suppleness and grace |
| alacrity | prompt and cheerful response |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial, civil and urbane |
| baseness | the lacking of higher values |
| beguile | to deceive, to mislead, to persuade with charm |
| bestial | brutal without reason, having the attributes of a savage |
| bestow | to grant or give |
| boisterous | rowdy, rough, and stormy |
| bombastic | using inflated language, pompous |
| candid | blunt, sincere honesty |
| carnal | marked by sexuality that is often frank and unrelieved by higher emotions |
| castigate | to punish or to subdue by punishment, to criticize with drastic severity |
| circumspect | careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent |
| consecrate | to dedicate or to declare sacred |
| cynical | given to faultfinding, sneering, and sarcasm; exhibiting a mocking disbelief |
| defunct | no longer existing, dead |
| desolate | deserted, without inhabitants, barren |
| dilatory | delaying, slow |
| discern | to differentiate between two or more things |
| discord | lack of agreement, tension, strife |
| discretion | ability to act on one’s own power of individual decision |
| edifying | instructing and improving spiritually or morally |
| enmesh | to entangle |
| entreaty | a plea, an earnest request |
| epithet | a term or phrase describing or characterizing |
| facile | easy, achieved with little difficulty |
| forbearance | patience, leniency |
| fulsome | excess to the point of disgust, extreme lavishness |
| garner | to gather together, to store up |
| gravity | seriousness, importance |
| guileless | without deceit |
| hideous | very ugly, offensive, shocking |
| homage | a reverential regard; respect shown by external action |
| imperious | extremely overbearing |
| insolence | insulting or contemptuous behavior |
| laconic | using a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude |
| lecher | one who indulges excessively in sexual activity or in lasciviousness |
| lethargic | sluggish, languid |
| malice | desire to harm others |
| malicious | motivated by hate or deliberate intent to harm |
| malign | to utter injuriously misleading reports about |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe |
| mutinous | rebellious, unruly |
| obscure | difficult to see, vague |
| odious | deserving hate or contempt |
| palpable | tangible, perceptible, easily noticeable |
| paradoxical | something that appears false or contradictory but is actually correct |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| peevish | fretful, obstinate |
| penitent | showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant |
| perdition | eternal damnation, utter ruin |
| pernicious | very destructive or harmful, deadly |
| profane | showing contempt toward sacred things |
| propriety | correct conduct |
| ruffianism | rowdy or tough behavior |
| ruminate | to consider for a long time at a slow pace, to ponder |
| sated | satisfied fully, indulged to excess |
| sordid | filthy, foul |
| subjugate | to bring under one’s control |
| surfeited | fed or supplied to excess |
| traducer | one who slanders or speaks falsely about someone |
| usurp | to take possession or authority over something without right |
| vehement | forcefully expressing emotion or conviction |
| verve | energy, enthusiasm |
| virtuoso | one skilled in the fine arts as an accomplished musician, a savant |
| wanton | immoral, lewd |
| warranted | justified |
