| 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 |