| A | B |
|---|
| sedately | adv. in a calm manner |
| perspective | n. way of looking at things |
| naive | adj. unsophisticated |
| foyer | entrance hall |
| envisioning | v. imagining |
| maniac | n or adj. mildly insane |
| propositioned | v. proposed |
| paisley | adj. pattern printed on fabric marked by colorful curved abstract figures |
| altruistic | adj. devotion to the welfare of others |
| feigning | v. pretending, faking, giving false appearance of |
| clotheshorse | n. conspicuously dressy person |
| provoked | v. to call forth, to stir up purposely |
| glumly | adv. gloomy, in a morose manner |
| sinister | adj. evil or productive of evil |
| squalor | n. filthiness from neglect or poverty |
| withering | v. to shrivel from loss of body moisture, to destroy |
| narrow-minded | adj. lacking in tolerance |
| repercussions | n. effects |
| ineptitude | n. incompetence, unfit |
| brusqueness | n. markedly short and abrupt in manner |
| muddled | v. to mix confusedly, to make a mess of |
| casualty | n. military person lost through death or missing in action |
| digress | v. to turn aside from main subject |
| confrontation | n. clashing of forces or ideas |
| frail | adj. fragile |
