| A | B |
| Pugnacious | Disposed to fight |
| Languid | Show little or no animation spirit |
| dissolution | Formal dismissal of an assembly or legislature |
| incredulous | Skeptical |
| reconciled | to settle or resolve |
| irk | to be irritating |
| promontory | a high point land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast |
| fractious | inclined to make trouble |
| temporize | to yield to current circumstances or necessities |
| insentate | lacking sensation or awareness |
| peevish | expressing fretfulness and discontent silly |
| oblique | indirect or evasive |
| wanton | immoral or unchaste |
| colloquial | peculiar or appropriate language of common or familiar conversation |
| turgid | excessively ornate or complex in style or language |
| haughty | disdainfully or contemptuously proud |