| A | B |
| abstinence | to refrain from something |
| asylum | sanctuary |
| conformist | follower of customs |
| emulate | follow an example |
| hackneyed | overused; cliched |
| intuitive | instinctive; untaught |
| perfidious | disloyal |
| reconciliation | agreement after a quarrel |
| subtle | elusive, sly, ambiguous |
| adhere | stick completely; believe in; follow the practice of |
| attribute | a characteristic caused by something else |
| contour | outline |
| devoid | entirely lacking |
| emerge | become apparent, important, or prominent |
| hardship | severe suffering or deprivation |
| infer | conclude for evidence and reasoning |
| notion | a conception or belief about something |
| precede | come before something in time |
| rudimentary | limited to basic principles |
| wholly | entirely |
| efficient | being effective without wasting time or resources |
| incremental | increasing gradually by regular degrees |
| inversely proportional | 2 connected amounts that decrease equally when one decreases |
| abstruse | difficult to understand |
| appellation | identifying name or title |
| deleterious | having a unexpected harmful effect |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent |
| latent | hidden |
| propensity | tendency |
| stigmatized | identified with disgrace |
| torpid | sluggish; without motion |