| A | B |
|---|
| adversity | misfortune |
| camaraderie | trust among friends |
| convergence | joining of parts |
| enhance | improve; augment |
| hedonist | pleasure seeker |
| lobbyist | persuader of legislators |
| pretentious | pompous; arrogant; self-important |
| resilient | quick to recover |
| superfluous | more than enough; extra |
| ambiguous | having a double meaning |
| befall | something bad happens to someone |
| contradict | to be in conflict with |
| diffuse | to spread out |
| engage | occupy or involve |
| immerse | involve oneself completely in an activity |
| intuition | a "gut" feeling |
| obstruct | to get in the way of; hinder |
| principle | fundamental truth that is the foundation of a belief |
| skeptical | not easily convinced; having doubts |
| altitude | the height of an object in relation to sea level or ground level |
