| A | B |
|---|
| affable | easy and pleasant to speak to |
| assiduous | diligent; persistent |
| candor | frankness; openness |
| disparaging | expressive of low opinion |
| eclectic | selecting elements from a variety of sources |
| fervor | great warmth and intensity of emotion |
| guffaw | to laugh heartily and boisterously |
| insipid | lacking excitement; dull |
| lank | long and slender; lean |
| malinger | to fake illness so as to escape duty |
| obtuse | slow to understand or perceive |
| philanderer | one who engages in passing love affairs |
| rebuke | to scold in a sharp way; reprimand |
| slather | to cover or spread on thickly |
| tenuous | not substantial; flimsy |
