| A | B |
| diminish | to decrease in size or importance |
| reluctant | unwilling to do something |
| focus | to give a lot of attention to one particular subject or thing |
| optimistic | always believing that good things will happen |
| inherent | present at birth |
| attitude | how you think or feel about something |
| lapse | a temporary failure, a period of time when something fails to happen as it should |
| renowned | famous |
| aggressive | behaving in an angry and violent way |
| unconventional | doing things in a way that is different from most people |
| random | done or chosen without any plan, by chance |
| immature | behaving in a way which is not expected from someone your age |
| recall | to remember something |
| flawless | without mistakes |
| assess | to make a judgment about the quality, size, value, etc of something, to score sth |
| inhibited | shy, not comfortable talking to others |
| implicit | suggested but not directly expressed |
| margin | an empty space down the side of a page of writing |
| retain | to continue to keep something |
| overload | to give someone more work or problems than they can deal with |
| sullen | silent and unpleasant |
| adorn | to decorate something |
| grasp | to hold in your hand |
| participants | someone who is involved in an activity |
| retrieve | to get something after first finding it |
| function | the purpose of something |
| intellectual | relating to your ability to think and understand things |
| glean | to discover information slowly, to find out |
| revealing | showing someone's true character or facts |
| role | the job someone or something has in a particular situation |