| A | B |
|---|
| simultaneously feeling opposing feelings; uncertain | ambivalent |
| feeling or showing little emotion | apathetic |
| favorable; promising | auspiscious |
| sincerity; openness | candor |
| convincing;reasonable | cogent |
| large in scope or content | comprehensive |
| conspicuously bad or offensive | egregious |
| to free from guilt or blame | exculpate |
| describing flowery or elaborate speech | florid |
| worn out through overuse; trite | hackneyed |
| arrogantly domineering or overbearing | imperious |
| inborn; built-in | inherent |
| introudicing something new | innovative |
| long established; deep-rooted; habitual | inveterate |
| giving praise | laudatory |
| one who resists adherence to a group | maverick |
| to calm or soothe | molilfy |
| strikingly new or unusal | novel |
| treating facts uninfluenced by emotion | objectivity |
| elaborately decorated | ornate |
| of chief concern or importance | paramount |
| expressing remore for one's misdeeds | penitent |
| dispersed throughout | pervasive |
| seemingly valid of acceptable; valid | plausible |
| unimaginative; dull | prosaic |
| a state of uncertainty or perplexity | quandary |
| hateful;marked by deep-seated ill will | rancorous |
| not genuine; false;counterfeit | spurious |
| having little substance or strenth; unsure; weak | tenuous |
| timid; fearful about the future | timorous |
| short-lived; temporary | transitory |
