tricky

• arable 


  fit for growing crops
• apellation 


  title, name
• buxom


  plump, welcoming, jolly
• bumptious 


  self-assertive
• bowdlerize 


  sanitise, usually to the materials detriment
• bilk


  swindle, cheat
• bevy


  a large group
• bellicose 


  warlike
• bedizen


  dress with vulgar finery
• bandinage


  a teasing conversation
• bacchanalian


  drunken
• augury


  omen, prophecy
• attrition


  gradual decrease in numbers (associated with workforce)
• atarism 


  resemblance to remote ancestors rather than parents
• accoutre


  equip
• accoutrements


  equipment
• acclivity


  sharp upslope of a hill
• arraigned


  charge in court, indict
• abeyance


  suspension, pause
• ablution


  washing, cleaning of oneself
• asperity


  sharpness of temper
• abrogate


  abolish
• abregation


  repudiation, self-sacrifice
• apotheosis 


  elevation to godhood; an ideal example
• apogee


  highest point
• adroit 


  skillful
• acme


  top/pinnacle
• abstemious


  sparing (in eating/drinking)
• prosaic


  mundane, unromantic
• ancillary

  (adj) helpful, serving as aid
• anathema


  a solemn curse
• alimentary


  nourishing
• aerie


  the nest of a large bird
• adventitious 


  accidental, casual
• aphorism 


  short philosophical statement, similar to an adage
• animus 


  hostile feeling/intent
• circuitous


  in a circluar/roundabout manner
• hackneyed


  overused, trite
• capitulate


  to surrender
• caprice


  sudden unexpected fancy/whim