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• Acrimonious


  Angry, bitter
• Adroit


  Skillful
• Affable/Amiable


  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 towards wealth and money
• Axiom


  Accepted truth
• Beatitude


  State of bliss; supreme blessedness
• Beleaguer


  To cause problems for
• Belie


  Give false impression
• Belligerent


  Hostile, aggressive
• Benediction


  Utterance or bestowment of blessing
• Bowdlerize


  Censor, expurgate, edit parts that are likely to shock or offend people
• Brazen


  Bold; shameless
• Brusque


  Abrupt in one's mannerisms; rude
• Bungler


  Amateur, incompetent
• Cacophony


  Harsh mixture of sounds
• Capacious


  Spacious
• Castigate


  Punish
• Caustic


  Corrosive, sarcastic
• Cerebral


  Intellectual; very smart
• Chaff


  Worthless thing; husk of corn
• Chicanery


  The use of deception
• Chimerical


  Illusory, imagination; highly unrealistic
• Compunction


  Feeling remorse; regret for doing wrong; uneasiness
• Concomitant


  Naturally accompanying; connected with something else
• Coniferous


  Needle-like or scale-like
• Conjecture


  Guess, speculation
• Consternation


  Anxious, dismayed
• Contentious


  Likely to cause argument
• Contiguous


  Next, together; sharing a border, nearby