| A | B |
|---|
| credulous | inclined to believe |
| provincial | limited in perspective; not fashionable |
| dilatory | delaying; procrastinating |
| skeptical | doubting; disbelieving |
| sophisticated | worldly-wise; fashionable |
| complacent | overly content; self-satisfied |
| cynical | distrustful; scornful of the motives of others |
| conscientious | careful; meticulous |
| supercilious | disdainful; patronizing |
| punctilious | attentive to the finer points of formal conduct; precise |
| peremptory | commanding |
| truculent | brutally harsh; mean; violent |
| meretricious | insincere; attracting attention in a false way |
| languid | listless; lacking vitality |
| melancholy | sad; depressed |
| convivial | sociable; festive |
| ecstatic | blissful |
| morbid | preoccupied with gruesome or unwholesome matters |
| oblivion | forgetfulness; insensibility |
| dejection | depression |
| abstraction | preoccupation; thoughtfulness |
| reverie | trancelike or dreamlike state |
| leverage | influence; advantage |
| consequence | social importance; distinction |
| notoriety | generally known, especially unfavorably |
| antecedents | ancestry |
| stratum | social class or status |
