| A | B |
|---|
| Pedagogue | A teacher |
| Pedant | 1. A person who pays excessive attention to learning the rules rather than to understanding 2. A scholarly show-off |
| Entity | Something that has a real or independent existence |
| Nonentity | 1. A person or thing of no importance 2. Something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| Essence | 1, The basic element; the identifying characteristic 2. A substance in a concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug 3. A perfume |
| Moribund | About to die or end |
| Mortify | 1. To shame 2. To discipline oneself by denial |
| Innate | Possessed at birth; inborn |
| Naive | 1. Childlike; unsophisticated 2. Gullible |
| Nascent | Emerging; coming into existence |
| Renaissance | 1. A rebirth; a renewal 2. (capitalized) A revival of humanism in 14th century to 16th century Europe |
