| A | B |
|---|
| affluent | wealthy and privilaged; well-to-do |
| superfluous | additional to what is necessary; extra |
| mellifluous | sweetly flowing or sounding |
| leaven | to make less heavy or serious |
| levity | lack of seriousness; jolly or joking manner |
| alleviate | to make less painful or dangerous |
| elapse | to slip away; go by |
| collapse | complete failure or ruin |
| relapse | a falling back into an old illness or bad habit |
| recede | to move back or away from |
| concession | something given up or yielded |
| cede | to surrender |
