| A | B |
| apathetic | feeling or showing little emotion |
| opportunist | A person who seeks self-gain, even at the expense of others, without regard to values or moral principles. |
| marooned | stranded |
| shrew | a bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman. |
| tangible | real; actual |
| absurd | ridiculous |
| refute | disprove, prove to be false |
| inferiority complex | a lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to society's standards. |
| invariably | always |
| vacuous | lacking in ideas or intelligence. |
| infuriated | angered greatly |
| naiveté | lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment |
| obscure | hide |
| applicability | relevance |
| impaired | diminished in strength, quality, or utility |
| progressive | happening or developing gradually or in stages; proceeding step by step |
| proportional | having the same or a constant ratio or relation |
| convolutions | folds in the brain |
| introspective | looking inward at one's own thoughts and feelings |
| deterioration | the process of becoming progressively worse |
| fissure | (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes |
| fugue | a period during which a person suffers from loss of memory, often begins a new life, and, upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase. |