| A | B |
|---|
| complacent | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| cocoon | something suggesting protection or in producing isolation |
| raucous | loud, boisterously disorderly |
| inarticulate | incapable of speech especially under stress or emotion |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor |
| retorted | to pay or hurl back; to say in reply |
| smoldered | to burn sluggishly, without flame, with much smoke |
| snowmobile | a long flat-bottomed light sled made usually of thin boards curved up at one end with usually low handrails at the sides |
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
