| A | B |
|---|
| foible | a fault; a weakness; a frailty in character |
| alacrity | alertness; quickness; cheerful readiness |
| assuage | alleviate; mitigate; lessen |
| droll | amusing; humorous; jocose |
| niggard | an extremely stingy person |
| credulous | believing; simple; naïve |
| intrinsically | belonging to a thing by its nature, of itself |
| vouchsafe | bestow; endow; award |
| ebullient | bubbly, vivacious, enthusiastic |
| éclat | celebrity; distinction; fame |
| philanthropic | charitable; giving to one’s fellow man; magnanimous; altruistic |
| gauche | clumsy, awkward, inept, tacky |
| puppyism | conceit; affectation; impertinence |
| solicitude | concern; care; anxiety |
| supposition | conjecture; presumption; assumption |
| fettered | constrained; bound; chained; impelled |
| fortitude | courage; valor; mettle |
| complaisance | courtesy; politeness; respect |
| fastidious | critically attentive to details; overly critical |
| depravity | degradation; evil; corruption |
| sedulously | diligently; assiduously; industriously |
| diffuse | diluted; sparse; scattered |
| incredulity | disbelief; amazement; doubt |
| dissemble | to disguise; conceal, shroud, hide the truth |
| effusion | emanation; radiation; the act of pouring out |
