| A | B |
|---|
| Incredulously | Expressive of disbelief |
| Contemptuous | feeling toward that person or thing that they are below you |
| Interrogation | to examine by questioning formally or officially |
| Myriad | A vast number, countless |
| Defiance | bold resistance to an opposing force or authority |
| Relentless | steady and persistent; unremmiting |
| Droning | to pass or act in a monotonous way, low humming monotonous sound |
| Pessimism | a tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view |
| Oblivious | lacking conscous awareness; unmindful |
| Tranquility | calmness, peacefullness, quiet |
| Crass | so crude and unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility; vulgar, illmannered |
| Aloofness | indifference by personal withdrawl; "emotional distance", a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner |
| Unmitigated | unrelieved, not lessoned or abolute |
| Fortnight | a period of 14 days; two weeks |
| Brooding | to be deep in thought; meditate |
| Blithely | carefree, full of joy |
| Talisman | something that apparently has magic power; to keep evil away |
