| A | B |
|---|
| affectation | ciality; displaying a behavior or attitude not natural to oneself aspirations, intentions |
| affront | to insult, esp. to the face by behavior or language |
| approbation | an act of approving formally or officially |
| assiduities | the quality of being diligent; or solicitous or obsequious attention to a person |
| asunder | into parts; torn |
| bagatelle | a trifle |
| brazen | marked by contemptuous boldness |
| chit | pert young woman |
| consumptive | progressive wasting away of the body esp. from pulmonary tuberculosis |
| demure | reserved, modest ; affectedly modest reserved or serious; coy |
| diffidence | hesitant in acting or speaking, through lack of self-confidence; reserved |
| disparity | made up of fundamentally different, often incongruous elements |
| dissimulation | hiding under a false appearance |
| drab | harlot, whore, slattern |
| dub | to confer knighthood on; to call by a distinctive title, epithet, or nickname |
| entreaty | to plead, ask urgently |
| expedient | an enterprise requiring haste or caution; characterized by concern with what is opportune, |
| facetious | jokingly; jocose |
| fopperies | the behavior or dress of a foolish or silly person; someone devoted |
| impudent | insolent; marked by cocky boldness, contemptuousness and disregard of others |
| indigent | impoverished; archaic: lacking in something specified |
| intrepidity | resolute fearlessness |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity; |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the body; an unwholesome condition |
| malignity | evil in nature or influence |
| mawkish | sickly or puerilely (childishly) sentimental |
| mercenary | serving merely for pay or sordid advantage |
| mirth | glee; jollity; gladness and gaiety accompanied by laughter |
| mortify | to humiliate ; embarrass; to subdue or deaden to or vain about dress or appearance |
| obstreperous | marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness; clamorous; stubbornly resistant to |
| paltry | inferior; trashy; trivial; meager; measly |
| peremptory | putting an end to by precluding a right of action, debate, or delay; imperious |
| petrify | to confound with fear or amazement; to become stone or of stony hardness |
| prerogative | an excusive or special right, power or privilege |
| proxy | a person authorized to act for another |
| replete | fully or abundantly provided or filled |
| sententious | abounding in excessive morality: terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression |
| spurious | illegitimate; bastard or of falsified or erroneously attributed origin; of a deceitful nature or quality |
| superfluous | more than what is necessary; beyond what is needed; excessive |
| trumpery | worthless nonsense; trivial or useless objects |
