| A | B |
|---|
| aesthetic | concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty |
| castigate | reprimand someone severely |
| choler | anger and irascibility; one of the four medieval bodily humors, associated with a peevish and irascible temperament |
| contumacious | stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority |
| cross the Rubicon | a metaphor which means to take an irrevocable step that commits one to a specific course |
| desiccated | having had all moisture removed; dried out |
| extemporaneous | spoken or done without preparation |
| fatuous | silly and pointless |
| fulminate | express vehement protest |
| gloaming | twilight; dusk |
| hauteur | haughtiness of manner; disdainful pride |
| idiosyncratic | peculiar or individual |
| incorrigible | (of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed |
| massif | a compact group of mountains, especially one that is separate from other groups |
| mercurial | subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind |
| mien | a person's look or manner, especially one of a particular kind indicating their character or mood |
| modicum | a small quantity of a particular thing, especially something considered desirable or valuable |
| monomania | exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing |
| munificence | the quality or action of being lavishly generous; great generosity |
| onerous | involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome |
| posited | assumed as a fact; put forward as a basis of argument |
| reverie | a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream |
| sanctimonious | making a show of being morally superior to other people |
| unalloyed | (of metal) not alloyed, pure; (chiefly of emotions) complete and unreserved |
| wanderlust | a strong desire to travel |
