| A | B |
|---|
| alacrity | cheerful willingness |
| antipathy | strong feeling of aversion |
| capitulates | surrender under specific conditions |
| decorum | conformity to social conditions |
| degenerate | showing decline |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| egotism | speak or write excessively of oneself |
| eradicate | remove all traces; erase |
| expedient | appropriate to purpose at hand |
| fluctuates | to vary irregularly |
| inherent | existing as an essential constituent |
| inscrutable | not able to be understood |
| internecine | mutually destructive |
| penitent | feeling remorse for ones sins |
| persevere | to persist in or remain constant |
| pertinacity | the state of being pertincious |
| predilection | a preference from personal learning |
| scourge | whip used to inflict punishment |
| squalor | filth and misery |
| superfluous | beyond what is required |
