| A | B | 
|---|
| compulsory | required | 
| biased | leaning toward one opinion over another for personal reasons | 
| radical | favoring extreme change | 
| persistent | refusing to give up | 
| inept | incompetent; bumbling | 
| faux pas | the breaking of a social rule without necessarily meaning to | 
| disdain | an attitude that something is not good enough | 
| disdain | scorn; contempt | 
| deluge | a floodlike rush of anything | 
| immune | protected against something harmful | 
| ostentatious | showy, splashy; overly grand | 
| surrogate | a substitute or stand-in | 
| biased | slanted or distorted | 
| credentials | items or documents proving a person's identy or qualification |