| A | B |
|---|
| accessible | easily approached or entered |
| aspire | to seek ambitiously |
| bolster | to add to, support, or uphold |
| gratify | to give pleasure or satisfaction |
| opportunist | person who exploits circumstances to gain immediate advantage rather than being guided by consistent principles or plans |
| proximity | nearness in space or time |
| recount | to relate or narrate |
| rigor | strictness, severity, or harshness |
| surpass | to be or go beyond |
| moiety | one of two (approximately) equal parts |
| aviary | a large enclosure for holding birds in confinement |
| discrepancy | a lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts |
| excerpt | A passage or segment taken from a longer work |
| glacial | Suggesting the extreme slowness or coldness of a glacier, extremely cold, coldly hostile, detached |
| pithy | concise and forcefully expressive |
| quiescent | in a state of inactivity |
| terse | sparing and abrupt with words |
| bombastic | pompous, overblown |
| circumlocution | the use of many words where fewer would do |
| colloquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation |
| diffuse | to spread over a large area |
| eloquence | fluent or persuasive speaking or writing |
| garrulous | excessively talkative |
| loquacious | talkative |
| voluble | speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently |
| rhetorical | expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress |
| rant | speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way |
| prattle | talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way |
| grandiloquent | pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner |
| verbose | using or expressed in more words than are needed |
