| A | B |
| connoisseur | an expert particularly in matters of art and taste |
| asunder | in separate parts; apart from each other in position |
| raze | to tear down; demolish to the ground |
| blighted | ruined; destroyed; withered |
| aghast | horrified |
| milieu | environment or surroundings |
| arduous | hard; difficult; tiresome |
| coterie | a cirlce of close friends or associates |
| awry | twisted; crooked; out of whack; askew; wrong |
| table | to postpone; remove from considreation |
| harried | to be troubled or bothered |
| irascible | easily angered; irritable |
| congenial | pleasant to be around; social; agreeable |
| boisterous | rowdy |
| chimerical | unrealistic, impossible, bizarre |
| vertigo | the sensation of being dizzy, disoriented or confused |
| fallacious | false, wrong, incorrect |
| impasse | dead end; impossible |
| zeal | enthusiasm |
| berate | to scold severely |