| A | B |
| opaque | blocking the passing of radiant energy especially light |
| incredulous | doubtful; skeptical |
| emulate | to attempt to resemble |
| annex | to join, or add, to make larger, attach |
| incongruously | lacking in harmony; incompatible |
| ignoramus | an utterly ignorant person |
| hypocrisy | a feigning to be what one is not or believe what one does not |
| irksome | tending to irk; annoying |
| deficits | a deficiency (lacking) in amount |
| rheumy | sick; mucousy |
| tenure | the act or period of holding something |
| peripatetic | wondering from place to place |
| demarcating | to mark the limits of |