| A | B |
|---|
| Petulant | rude; cranky; ill-tempered |
| Pedantic | boringly scholarly or academic |
| Sycophant | a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering those in power |
| Bourgeois | middle class, usually in a perjorative sense; boringly conventional |
| Coerce | to force someone to do or not to do something |
| Vacillate | to be indecisive; to waver |
| Peruse | to read carefully |
| Mercurial | emotionally unpredictable, changing in mood |
| Gregarious | sociable, enjoying the company of others |
| Zealous | enthusistically devoted; fervent |
| Vapid | Without liveliness, dull, spiritiless |
| Contrived | Artificial, labored |
| Iconoclast | one who attacks popular beliefs or institutions |
| Ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| Coalese | to come together as one, to fuse, unite |
| Ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| Furtive | secretive, sly |
| morose | gloomy, sullen |
| charlatan | fraud;quack, con man |
| Pejorative | negative, disparaging |
