| A | B |
| Raffish | tawdry; gaudy; showy and cheap |
| Attenuates | eases; makes less obvious |
| Cosmopolitan | international; worldly; free from national and local prejudices |
| Incongruous | inappropriate; out of place |
| Spasmodic | sudden; showing burstes of excitement |
| Hypocritical | insincere; two faced |
| Dubiously | doubtfully; uncertainly |
| Highbrow | a person who cares, or claims to care, a great deal about knowledge and culture |
| Heterogeneous | Varied; different in kind |
| Implicit | unspoken; understood |