| A | B |
|---|
| Nostalgic | A bittersweet longing for things of the past |
| Hyperbolic | enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; exaggerated |
| Foreboding | a feeling of future misfortune or evil |
| Allusive | characterized by indirect references |
| Frivolous | Inappropriately silly |
| Audacious | unrestrained; uninhibited |
| Funereal | mournful; gloomy; dismal |
| Pedantic | Overly academic, ostentatious display of knowledge |
| Inflammatory | arousing strong emotions like anger, rebellion and belligerence |
| Clinical | dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical |
| Incisive | remarkably clear and direct; sharp |
| Melodramatic | overdramatized emotion that comes across false |
| Indignant | angered at something unjust or wrong |
| Condescending | a patronizingly superior attitude |
| Flippant | frivolously disrespectful |
| Effusive | excessive emotional expression; gushy |
| Contentious | quarrelsome; tending to argue |
| Didactic | teaching a moral or lesson |
| Lugubrious | dismal or gloomy to a ludicrous degree |
| Diffident | a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid |
