| A | B |
|---|
| collusion | the act of conspiring to defraud |
| pliancy | receptive to change |
| affectation | artificial behavior assumed or simulated to impress others |
| exhort | to urge strongly by argument |
| benefactor | a "do-gooder"; one who gives financial or other aid |
| glutton | one who eats to excess |
| divert | to amuse or entertain |
| abstruse | difficult to understand |
| avarice | greed |
| stoic | one unmoved emotionally by pleasure or pain |
| provincial | narrow minded; rustic |
| fortitude | strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage |
| alacrity | cheerful eagerness; sprightliness |
| impunity | exemption from punishment or penalty |
| circumvent | to go around or bypass; evade |
| equanimity | calmness; imperturbability |
| dire | warning of disaster; urgent; grave |
| tenuous | thin, insubstantial; flimsy |
| galvanize | to arouse awareness or action |
| sanguine | hopeful |
| bereavement | grief mourning the death of another |
| gullible | easily deceived or duped |
| pugnacity | aggressiveness |
| animosity | enmity; bitter hostility |
| elucidate | to make clear |
| posterity | future generation |
| reticent | disinclined to speak out |
| impetuous | impulsive |
| contemptuous | anger, dislike towards something |
| facade | the front face of a building; an artificial or false appearance |
