| A | B |
| ACHIEVEMENT | accomplishment; result gained by effort |
| ACHIEVER | a person who achieves a goal |
| TO ACHIEVE | to accomplish or reach a goal |
| ACTION | activity; movement; doing something |
| ACTIVE | causing or involving action or change |
| ADVERSE | opposed to one’s interests; acting against or opposite to one’s interests |
| AGGRESSIVE | forceful; bold; exhibiting aggression (negative) |
| ALOOF | cool; distant physically or emotionally |
| ARROGANT | exaggerating one’s own importance |
| ASSERTIVE | forceful; bold; confident (positive) |
| ASSERTIVENESS | action of being assertive |
| ASSUMPTION | statement taken for being true; action of believing; fact or statement taken for granted |
| TO ASSUME | to believe; to take for granted |
| BOUNDARY | limit; border |
| COMPETITION | act of competing |
| COMPETITIVENESS | state of feeling a desire to compete |
| COMPETITOR | a person who competes |
| TO COMPETE | to seek or strive for something for which others are also contending |
| TO CONCEIVE OF | to think of; to believe |
| CONNOTATION | extra meaning associated with a word |