| A | B |
|---|
| Pretense | The act of pretending or alleging falsely |
| Threadbare | Meager |
| Impassive | Without emotion |
| Skittish | Restlessly or excessively lively |
| Tourniquet | A device to stop bleeding by compressing a blood vessel |
| Rectitude | Rightness of principle or conduct |
| Aesthetic | Pertaining to a sense of the beautiful |
| Ambiguity | Doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention |
| Exploits | A striking or spirited act |
| Flourishes | To add embellishments to writing |
| Sheepish | Embarrassed or bashful |
| Bedlam | A scene or state of wild uproar and confusion |
| Mundane | Common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative |
| Compulsion | A strong, usually irresistible impule to perform an act |
| Tantalizing | Having or exhibiting something that provokes interest or desire |
| Serene | Calm |
| Encompassed | To include comprehensively |
| Balked | To stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on |
| Sentimentality | Quality of appealing to emotions |
| Eccentricity | An oddity or peculiarity |
| Talisman | Any amulet or charm |
| Imprecision | Not exact; vague or ill-defined” |
