| A | B |
| Abstruse | Difficult to understand; obscure |
| Affable | Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to |
| Audacity | The willingness to take bold risks. |
| Contrite | Feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt |
| Credulous | Having or showing too great a readiness to believe things. |
| Depravity | Moral corruption; wickedness |
| Deprecate | Express disapproval of. |
| Didactic | Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. |
| Dormant | (of an animal) having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period of time. |
| enigmatic | difficult to interpret, mysterious, unfathomable |
| paradigm | a typical example or pattern of something; a model |
| proactive | creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened |