Vocabulary

• Acrimonious - angry, bitter
• adroit - skillful
• affable - friendly
• alimentary - nourishment, sustenance
• amalgam - mixture, blend
• ambivalent - mixed feelings
• ameliorate - make better
• amicable - agreeable
• 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
• 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