| A | B |
| divulge | to make public, reveal |
| pretentious | making claims to importance or doing things for show |
| miscegenation | of mixing of races by intermarriage or interbreeding |
| ambivalence | an instance of having conflicting attitudes about something |
| incredulity | a lack of belief; doubt, disbelief |
| incoherently | in a manner not showing logical connection or consistency |
| emotional | showing strong feeling of any kind |
| promiscuous | indiscriminately mixing, mingling, or associating (often of sexual actvity) |
| dissimulation | disguising or hiding under a pretense; a feigning; hypocrisy |
| purgatory | a condition or place in the afterlife where the remorseful are purified from sin by punishment |
| extenuation | the act of making something seem less serious |
| prevailing | to be the most usual or strongest; having the most influence |
| intervening | entering or occurring incidentally or extraneously |
| specious | having deceptive attraction or a false appearance of truth or goodness |
| expurgated | cleansed of something considered morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| dilatory | tending to delay |
| impotence | the state of having no power; helplessness |
| abnegation | the act of denying (luxuries etc.) |
| convivial | fond of feasting and joviality; sociable |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or acceptance through deliberate effort |