| A | B |
|---|
| affable | friendly; easy-going |
| dogmatic | sticking to widely-accepted belief, even when faced with contrary evidence; closed minded |
| innocuous | harmless; inoffensive |
| quarantine | forced isolation to prevent the spread of disease |
| affirmation | positive statement; assertion; agreement |
| eccentric | different from most, especially in personality or behavior |
| innovation | a new idea/ product; a new way of doing something that is so much better, it causes others to copy it |
| rebuff | to ignore or reject strongly; snub |
| ambidextrous | able to use both hands with equal skill |
| eclectic | choosing from many different sources; carefully selective |
| scrupulous | very thorough; or, doing what is right and ethical |
| amorphous | without or shape |
| endorse | promote or recommend |
| intrinsic | located within the very nature if an object or person; inherent |
| slough | discard; cast off; shed |
| inscrutable | mysterious |
| sanguine | optimistic |
| ambivalence | indecision; feeling of being pulled in two directions |
| emulate | imitate |
| insolvent | unable to pay bills; bankrupt |
