| A | B |
|---|
| altruism | unselfish concern for the welfare of others |
| ambience | an environment of its distinct atmosphere; milieu |
| anomalous | deviating from the regular arrangement, general use, or usual methods; abnormal |
| ardent | warm or intense in feeling; intensely enthusiastic or devoted |
| arid | lacking enough water for things to grow; dry and barren; lifeless, dull |
| augment | to make greater, to increase |
| clandestine | kept secret or hidden, especially for some illicit purpose |
| cravenness | cowardly, afraid |
| deferential | showing deference ( yielding to the opinion of others), very respectful |
| deft | skillful in a quick, sure, and easy way; dexterous |
| dilapidated | falling to pieces or into disrepair; broken down; shabby and neglected |
| droll | amusing in an odd or wry way |
| empathetic | characterized by the ability to feel as another person does |
| errant | roving or wandering in search of adventure; itinerant; straying from the right course |
| incipient | in the first stage of existence; just beginning to exist or come to notice |
| indolence | disliking or avoiding work; idle; lazy |
| ineffable | too overwhelming to be expressed; too awesome or sacred to be spoken |
| insuperable | that cannot be overcome or passed over; insurmountable |
| mien | a way of carrying or conducting oneself; manner; appearance; a way of looking |
| mortality | the nature of man, having eventually to die; death on a large scale as from disease or war |
| oblivious | forgetful or unmindful; causing forgetfullness |
| obsequious | fawning; showing too great a willingness to serve or obey |
| panegyric | a formal speech or piece of writing praising a person or event; hyperbolic praise |
| pejorative | declining; making or becoming worse; disparaging or derogatory |
| penchant | a strong liking or fondness; inclination; taste |
| perfunctory | done without care or interest or merely as a form or routine; superficial |
| petulant | forward; immodest; impatient or irritable especially over some petty annoyance |
| pious | having or showing religious devotion; springing from actual or pretended religious devotion |
| prelude | anything serving as an introduction |
| pristine | of an earlier period or condition; still pure, untouched, unspoiled |
| reticence | reserved; state of habitual silence or uncommunicative |
| ribald | characterized by coarse or vulgar joking |
| sardonic | disdainfully or bitterly sneering; ironic; sarcastic |
| specious | deceptive; seeming to be good, true, without really being so |
| supercilious | haughtiness; disdainful or contemptuous; characterized by pride or scorn |
| truculent | fierce, cruel, savage; ferocious; rude, harsh, mean, scathing |
| vindictiveness | revengeful in spirit |
| wry | turned or bent to one side; stubbornly contrary; perverse, ironic |
