| A | B |
| apprehensive | adj. uneasy; afraid or anxious about the future |
| callous | adj. unfeeling; insensitive; thick and hardened |
| commendable | adj. praiseworthy; deserving approval or credit |
| indignant | adj. angered by the unfairness of meanness of something |
| ineffectual | adj. unable to bring about a desired result; inadequate |
| judicious | adj. showing good judgment; wise and careful; discreet; prudent |
| mystic | adj. mysterious; *n. a person who believes that truth or God can be best known through spiritual insight; a religious seeker; |
| paraphrase | n. a rewording of the meaning of a text or speech; *v. to state a meaning in other words |
| personification | n. a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities; a person or thing that perfectly represents an idea or quality |
| verbatim | adj. following the original, word-for-word; *adv. word-for-word; in the exact words |