| A | B |
| garrulous | talking a great deal especially about unimportant things |
| verbose | using more words than needed (indicates long and boring) |
| taciturn | quiet; speaking very little |
| conjecture | guess; predict |
| interminable | endless; seeming to last forever |
| gullible | easily deceived and too easy to believe or trust things or people |
| skeptical | doubting the truth or validity |
| reminiscence | recalling of past experiences with pleasure |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| understatement | saying something is less than what is really meant, usually for ironic purposes |
| satire | criticizing a subject by ridicule or attitude of amusement |
| vernacular | language as spoken by people in a particular region or place |
| irony | opposite of what was expected |