| A | B |
| bucolic | charmingly rural |
| pretentious | pretending to be more important than you are |
| gullible | easily deceived; too trusting |
| convivial | friendly in a social way |
| discreet | unnoticeable; sneaky |
| discrete | unconnected; distinctly separate |
| fabricate | to make up (something that is not true) |
| gesticulate | to "talk with your hands" |
| laud | to praise |
| belabor | to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent |
| reiterate | to say again; to repeat |
| conflagration | a huge, destructive fire |
| induce | to cause to happen |
| soporific | causing drowsiness or sleep |
| anarchy | absence of government or control that results in chaos |
| strident | shrill; annoyingly high-pitched |