| A | B |
|---|
| maudlin | tearfully or excessively sentimental |
| pander | to cater or base desires |
| gregarious | preferring the company of others to solitude |
| effete | spent; exhausted; barren of energy; worn out by rich or effortless existence |
| ascetic | practicing extreme self-denial |
| vicarious | enjoyed by one person through his sympathetic but indirect participation in the experience of another (real or fictional) person; substitutional |
| rationalize | to attribute one's actions to rational and creditable motives, without an adequate analysis of the true and usually unconscious motives |
| obsequious | servilely attentive; fawning |
| sublimate | to direct energy from its primitive and destructive aim to one that is culturally or ethically higher and therefore socially acceptable |
| wanton | unchaste; lewd; licentious; marked by arrogant restlessness of justice, of feelings of others, or the like; also, having no just provocation wilfully malicious |
