| A | B |
| abtruse | complex and difficult to understand |
| blithe | cheerful, carefree, inidifferent |
| concoct | to combine in the porcess of preparation |
| din | noisy disturbance |
| ecstatic | a feeling of great delight |
| finesse | smooth, skillful maneuvering |
| gnocchi | an Italian pasta dish, small round balls of pasta |
| heterogeneous | different |
| homogeneous | the same |
| impregnable | stubbornly resistant |
| judicious | demonstrating good judgement |
| kinetic | pertaining to motion |
| ludicrous | absurd to a point of being laughable |
| mandate | authorative command |
| nemesis | an opponent motivated by revenge |
| omnivorous | accustomed to eating both animal and vegetable food items,; voracious in taking all that is offered |
| paraphrase | to restate in different words |
| quaver | to tremble, shake |
| regress | to return to an earlier state of being |
| soliloquy | speech given when no one else is present |
| tangible | real, touchable |
| ubiquitous | seemingly everywhere at once |
| vernacular | mode of expression in language accepted by a given group |
| wean | to withdraw from a habit or form of enjoyment |
| your | belonging to you |
| you're | you are |
| zenith | the highest point attained |