to seize, arrest

• assail

• apprehend

• assuage

• avenge

to scold vehemently

• balk

• beguile

• beseech

• berate

an attempt to spoil someone else’s reputation by spreading lies

• calumny

• candor

• caucus

• circumlocution

suitable for growing crops

• arid

• arcane

• arboreal

• arable

obscure, secret, known only by a few

• archetypal

• archaic

• arcane

• ascetic

a piece of cloth on which an artist paints

• caucus

• candor

• canvas

• chronicle

a burden

• bard

• bane

• behemoth

• blight

something of tremendous power or size

• blight

• behemoth

• boon

• bourgeois

to take without justification

• arrogate

• ascertain

• ascribe

• assail

harsh, cold, unfeeling

• callous

• canny

• brazen

• bombastic