| A | B |
| taut | stretched or pulled tight |
| specious | seemingly true, but actually wrong |
| tacitly | understood without being stated |
| skewed | turned to the side, crooked |
| impalpable | unable to be felt by touch |
| hiatus | a pause or a gap in a sequence or series |
| opaque | not able to been seen through |
| ebullience | cheerful and full of energy |
| inscrutable | impossible to understand or interpret |
| festooned | to be decorated |