| A | B |
|---|
| a stroke | apoplexy |
| fear | apprehension |
| informed | apprised |
| difficult | arduous |
| become irritated | chafe |
| record | chronicle |
| to contribute | conduce |
| willingness to believe too readily; gullibility | credulity |
| distrustful of human nature and its motives | cynical |
| suave | debonair |
| outward manner | demeanor |
| nickname; shortened, familiar form | domesticity |
| sincere | earnest |
| unmanly | effeminate |
| disrespectful boldness | effrontery |
| leaving one's country to live elsewhere | emigrating |
| the quality of being even-tempered under stress | equanimity |
| removal of objectionable elements | expurgation |
| strong point | forte |
| nonchalantly, with easy lack of concern | glibly |
| unseemly, not proper | indecorous |
| incapable of being overcome; insurmountable | insuperable |
| burial | interment |
| in an unchanging manner | invariably |
| unalterable | irrevocable |
| not strict, loose | lax |
| scheming, crafty action | machination |
| abstract, theoretical | metaphysical |
| a person who hates or distrusts humanity | misanthrope |
| a newly coined word | neologism |
| showily | ostentatiously |
| humanitarian, promoting human welfare | philanthropic |
| large suitcase | portmanteau |
| excessively confident | presumptuous |
| dissolute, shamelessly immoral | profligate |
| putting forward for consideration | propounding |
| high ranks | purple |
| to cower | quail |
| impractically idealistic, rash, and impractical | Quixotic |
| restoration of friendship | reconciliation |
| serving tray | salver |
| half lying down | semi-recumbent |
| in a pompously moralizing manner | sententiously |
| lawyer | solicitor |
| in a haughtily scornful manner, disdainfully | superciliously |
| to guess | surmise |
| boring, tiresomely dull | tedious |
| state of being under anothers guidance or protection | tutelage |
| emphasizing usefulness over beauty | utilitarian |
| wavering | vacillating |
