| A | B |
|---|
| Bravado | false show of courage or defiance |
| Degredation | condition of being brought to a lower level; humiliation |
| Exuberance | unrestrained joy |
| Futile | having no useful result |
| Impotent | powerless; lacking strength or vigor |
| Nostalgia | bittersweet longing for things from the past |
| Ostensibly | seemingly; to all outward appearances |
| Perverse | stubbornly contrary; wrong; harmful |
| Poignantly | in a profoundly moving manner |
| Retribution | something given in repayment, usually as a punishment |
| Squalor | a filthy, shabby, and wretched condition, as from poverty |
| Stoicism | indifference to pleasure or pain; a lack of visible emotion |
