| A | B |
|---|
| contempt | scorn, extreme dislike or disdain |
| disdain | intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy |
| vulgarity | something offensive to good taste and refinement |
| spurn | to reject or to refuse with hostility |
| insolence | insulting or contemptuous behavior |
| perpetuate | to prolong the existence of something |
| ascend | to move upward, to rise from a lower station |
| despicable | very bad, contemptible |
| ignominy | disgraceful or dishonorable conduct |
| obstinate | unyielding regardless of reason or logic |
| adamant | inflexible, immovable, obstinate |
| reticence | restraint in speech, reluctance to speak |
| obtrude | to thrust out, to thrust forward |
| derision | scoffing at, mockery, ridicule |
| felicitous | happy or delightful |
| revere | to honor, to regard with respect |
| fortuitous | something that happens by accident or chance (usually good) |
| refractory | unmanageable, stubborn with respect to authority |
| monotony | sameness |
| stupefy | to dull the senses, as to put into a stupor |
| supercilious | haughty, vain, and arrogant |
| ponderous | very heavy, unwieldy from weight |
| ferment | state of agitation, commotion |
| corrugated | bent into folds |
| melancholy | depressed of spirits |
