| A | B |
| Addiction | a dependence; a habitual, compulsive physical or psychological need |
| Addict | a person who has an addiction |
| Affliction | distress, a cause of suffering, illness, burden |
| Afflict (verb) | to cause mental or physical distress |
| Alluring | attractive, appealing, tempting |
| Allure (verb) | to attract, entice or charm |
| Assay (verb) | to test, analyze, evaluate, determine |
| Cognizant | aware of, having knowledge of something, informed, |
| Collaborate | to work together, cooperate |
| Comely | attractive, agreeable |
| Allure (noun) | a quality that is desirable and attracts |
| Assay (noun) | an analysis, examination |
| Complicit | involved or associated with an improper act or crime |
| Complicity | involvement in wrongdoing |
| Conjecture (noun) | a judgment based on incomplete evidence, a guess, an opinion |
| Conjecture (verb) | to guess or infer |
| Conviction (1) | a strongly held opinion or belief |
| Conviction (2) | a judgement that one is guilty of a crime |
| convict (verb) | to make a judgement that one is guilty of a crime |
| convict (noun) | one who is judged to be guilty of a crime |
| crass | crude, tactless, unrefined, vulgar |
| craven | cowardly |
| decoy (noun) | a lure of either a live or artificial animal (usually bird) to attract game to trap or within range to shoot; a means to mislead or trap |
| decoy (verb) | to lure, entrap, mislead, by means of decoy |
| entice | to induce, tempt, lure, persuade |
| flagrant | conspicuously bad, glaring, brazen, offensive, heinous, atrocious |
| flagrantly | marked by offensiveness |
| irate | very angry, enraged, or incensed |
| obsession | a persistent idea or fixation on an idea or person, mania or compulsive emotion, awesome desire or fear |
| obsess | to preoccupy or fill the mind of a person totally |
| predisposition | an inclination, leaning, tendency, susceptibility (effected in advance); prior influence or bias |
| profound (1) | deep, thoughtful, wise, sincere, heartfelt |
| profound (2) | having a significant effect, thorough or far-reaching |
| revelation | something reveled, discovered, disclosed, or made known; an insight |
| reveal | to discover, show, or make known |
| sensual | affecting to the senses, especially in a pleasing way |
| sinister | suggesting or threatening evil by appearance or manner |
| stolid | having or showing little or no emotion |
| surmise | to infer, suppose, figure out, deduce |