| A | B |
| martial | military; suggesting war; warlike |
| cliche | an overused idea or expression; a trite saying |
| prolific | producing a great deal of something; producing many young or much fruit |
| wan | sickly pale or faint; colorless |
| aesthetic | artistic; having to do with art or beauty; sensitive to art and beauty |
| charism | a special quality of leadership or a special charm that captures the public imagination and inspires devotion |
| recipients | a person who receives something |
| emphatically | forcefully assertively |
| paradoxes | a statement that may be true but that seems to say contradictory things |
| conceived | to imagine or develop as an idea; to understand or grasp; to become pregnant with |