| A | B |
|---|
| asperity | sharpness (as in temper); harshness |
| buffeted | struck repeatedly, battered |
| compunction | remorse, distress or anxiety over an anticipated action |
| cutlery | cutting instruments |
| distant | chilly in manner |
| dowager | a widow who holds a title from her husband, an elderly woman of society |
| entrench | to fix firmly; to encroach |
| glacial | extremely cold or frigid |
| improvidence | not providing for the future, not thrifty |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise |
| leaven | to introduce something that spreads throughout and modifies or enlivens |
| matriculate | to enroll or to admit to membership by enrolling, esp. in a college |
| methodical | proceeding in a regular or systematic order |
| narcissistic | excessively loving oneself |
| panache | a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flare |
| picayune | something of very small value, petty |
| prescient | knowledge of events before they happen, foresight |
| railat | to condemn or to attack with abusive language |
| retrospection | a looking back or contemplation of the past |
| reverie | daydreaming |
| seethe | to boil , to be agitated |
| stately | dignified, majestic |
| unctuous | characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor |
| vim | great vitality and energy |
| wooden | stiff, clumsy |
