Vocabulary

• acrimonious


  angry, bitter
• adroit


  skillful
• affable


  friendly
• alimentary


  nourishment, sustenance
• amalgam 


  mixture, blend
• ambivert


  mixed feeling
• ameliorate


  make better
• amicable 


  agreeable
• anachronism 


  from another time
• aplomb


  assurance, self-confidence
• arid


  dry out
• ascetic


  abstinence, non-indulgent
• assuage


  to ease
• autocrat


  a ruler with absolute power
• avarice


  extremely greedy
• axiom 


  accepted truth
• beatitude


  state of bliss
• beleaguer


  to cause problems for
• belie


  give false impression
• belligerent


  hostile
• benediction 


  blessing
• bowdlerize


  censor, expurgate
• brazen 


  bold
• brusque


  abrupt in one's mannerism
• bungler


  amateur, incompetent
• cacophony


  harsh mixture of sound
• capacious


  spacious
• castigate


  punish
• caustic


  corrosive; sarcastic
• 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
• contingent 


  subject to change