| A | B |
| anecdote | (n) brief story, often humorous, often wholly or semi-autobiographical |
| climactic | (adj) describing the highest point of action OR a turning point in a story or life story |
| epilogue | (n) concluding section of a written work |
| extemporaneous | (adj) unrehearsed |
| fidelity | (n) loyalty; faithfulness |
| forte | (n) something one does well; a strength |
| gourmet | (n) expert on food and/or drink |
| hypochondriac | (n) one who has hypochondria, a disorder featuring imagined illness |
| prodigy | (n) someone, usually a child, with a premature or unusually high level of talent or intellect |
| stigma | (n) 1.shameful mark or label carried from one's past 2.pollen-bearing organ of a flower |