| A | B |
| lackadaisical | listless; without interest |
| edible | digestible; can be eaten |
| philomath | scholar; lover of learning |
| pretense | dishonesty; prentending; make-believe |
| proclivity | predisposition; inclination or tendency |
| incoherent | unintelligible; not logical |
| mawkish | sentimental; weakly emotional |
| established | demonstrated; provide evidence for |
| ephemeral | short-lived; transitory |
| avocation | hobby |
| kvetch | complain |
| acute | sharp |
| inamorata | mistress; female sweetheart |
| inconsequential | irrelevent; not important |
| debouch | emerge; to march out from a narrow or confined place into the open |
| amateur | novice; inexperienced |
| ludic | playful |
| crimson | red |
| benison | a blessing |
| exempt | excused; released from |
| eldritch | strange; weird; spooky |
| defective | flawed; imperfect |
| allot | assign; to divide or distribute |
| cursory | superficial; hasty; not noticing details |
| arcanum | secret or mystery |
| terse | brief, concise or succinct |
| dulcet | harmonious; melodious |
| misdemeanor | petty crime |
| embonpoint | excessively plump or stout |
| concocted | invented; devised; made up |
| chimera | monster |
| former | previous |
| mulct | defraud or swindle |
| strident | harsh, shrill or irritating sound |
| raffish | gaudily vulgar or cheap; tawdry |