| A | B |
| tact | (n.): a keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense; skill in dealing with difficult or delicate situations |
| tactile | (adj.): of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch |
| intact | (adj.): not altered, broken, or impaired; remaining uninjured, sound, or whole |
| tangible | (adj.): capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial |
| tangential | (adj.): pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent (in immediate physical contact; touching) |
| centrifugal | (adj.): moving or directed outward from the center |
| eccentric | (adj.): deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd |
| egocentric | (adj.): having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things |
| epicenter | (n.): the point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake or underground nuclear explosion |
| ethnocentric | (n.): the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture |
| amorphous | (adj.): lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless |
| isomorphic | (adj.): having a similar structure or appearance but being of different ancestry |
| metamorphosis | (n.): a complete change of physical form or substance |
| morphine | (n.): a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative |
| morphology | (n.): the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms |