| A | B |
|---|
| enthusiastic | extremely pleased or excited |
| genius | a person with great intelligence and/or ability |
| to get away from it all | to retreat from the stress of daily activities |
| gifted | very capable and inventive; talented |
| moody | frequently appearing disagreeable, unpleasant, or sad to others |
| nonconformist | a person who refuses to follow established customs |
| obedient | follows orders |
| acquisition | the act of gaining a new or added characteristic, trait, or ability |
| admissions | the act or process of admitting |
| beat around the bush | to fail or refuse to come to the point in discourse |
| dropouts | one who drops out of school |
| exposed to | to submit or make accessible to a particular action or influence |
| gazillions | an indeterminately large number |
| gist | the main point or part, essence |
| home-schooled | a child who is taught school subjects at home |
| inventive | creative, adept or prolific at producing inventions |
| long-winded | tediously long in speaking or writing; not easily subject to loss of breath |
| patent clerk | one whose work deals with documents securing for a term of years the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention |
| relevance | relation to the matter at hand; pertinence, practical and especially social applicability |
| rigor | strictness, the quality of being unyielding or inflexible |
| underprivileged | deprived through social or economic condition of some of the fundamental rights of all members of a civilized society |
