| A | B |
| adherence | steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment |
| aptitude | capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent |
| enhance | to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify |
| palpable | readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived |
| wheedle | to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts |
| chastisement | severe criticism; a rebuke or strong reprimand |
| petulantly | moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance; moody, childish |
| tabulated | to put or arrange in a tabular, systematic, or condensed form |
| remorse | deep and painful regret for wrongdoing |
| bewildered | completely puzzled or confused; perplexed |