| A | B |
|---|
| adversity | difficulties; misfortune |
| asylum | shelter or protection from danger |
| clairvoyant | person who claims to have supernatural ability to predict the future |
| diligent | conscientiousness in one's work |
| enhance | increase or improve the quality of something |
| hedonist | person who pursues pleasure |
| incompatible | two things that are opposed and do not go well together |
| ostentatious | trying to impress or attract attention |
| precocious | a child who has developed abilities at an early age |
| reconciliation | to be friends again with someone you fought with |
| spurious | not being what it seems to be |
| transient, ephemeral | lasting only for a short time |
| aesthetic | concerned with beauty |
| collaborate | work jointly on an activity |
| discredit | hurt the good reputation of someone |
| ephemeral, transient | lasting for a very short time |
| hypothesis | a supposition made with limited evidence |
| inconsequential | not important, not significant |
| pretentious | attempting to impress by affecting greater importance than is really possessed |
| renovation | restore a building back to its good state |
