| A | B |
| incompetence | to consider carefully |
| maladjusted | poorly adjusted to one's environment |
| identity | the set of characteristics that somebody recognizes as belonging uniquely to himself or herself |
| asphyxiated | suffocated |
| capitalists | a person who has capital invested in business |
| muse | a source of inspiration |
| arborists | specialists in the care of woody plants |
| menacing | threatening |
| errant | straying outside proper bounds |
| commercialism | excessive emphasis on profit |
| gargoyle | a grotesquely carved figure |
| dryad | a wood nymph |
| demented | suffocated |
| mute | a person who cannot or does not speak |
| ponder | to consider carefully |
| bigoted | one who treats members of a group whit hatred and intolerance |
| pseudo | sham, not genuine |
| wistful | feeling or showing a timid desire |