Vocabulary Study List (A, B, C)

• acrimonious


  angry, bitter
• alimentary


  nourishment, sustenance
• amalgam


  mixture, blend
• ambivalent


  mixed feelings
• ameliorate


  make better
• anachronism


  from another time
• aplomb


  assurance, self-confidence
• arid


  dry out
• ascetic


  abstinent, non-indulgent
• assuage


  to ease
• autocrat


  a ruler with absolute power
• avarice


  extremely greedy
• axiom


  accepted truth
• adroit


  skillful
• affable


  friendly
• amicable: agreeable
• beatitude


  state of bliss
• beleaguer


  to cause problems for
• belie


  give false impression
• bowdlerize


  censor, expurgate
• brusque


  abrupt in one's mannerisms
• bungler


  amateur, incompetent
• belligerent - hostile 
• benediction - blessing 
• brazen - bold
• cacophony


  harsh mixture of sounds
• caustic


  corrosive; sarcastic
• capacious - spacious 
• castigate - punish 
• cerebral - intellectual
• chaff - worthless thing; husk of corn 
• chicanery - the use of deception 
• chimerical


  illusory, imagination
• compunction


  feeling remorse
• concomitant - naturally accompanying 
• coniferous - needle-like or scale-like
• conjecture


  guess, speculation
• consternation


  anxious, dismayed
• contentious


  likely to cause argument
• contiguous


  next, together