| A | B |
|---|
| stifling | withholding from circulation or expression; repressing |
| uplifting | improving the spiritual, social, or intellictual condition of; inspiring enriching |
| sensibilities | sensitivities; awareness of and responsiveness to something |
| explicity | clearly, unambiguously |
| prophetic | fortelling events; predictive |
| surreptitiously | done, made, or acquired by stealth; secretly, slyly |
| fervently | marked by great intensity of feeling; zealously |
| universal | worldwide, general, common |
| anemic | lackluster insipid (can also be a medical condition caused by anemia) |
| gourmand | one who is heartily interested in good food and drink |
| affront | to insult esp to the face by behavior or language |
| envision | to picture to oneself |
| affectation | mannerisms, especially pretentious ones |
| frugal | economy in the expenditure of resources |
| ensemble | a complete costume or harmonizing clothing and accessories |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective, often by the addition of something that impairs |
| bourgeois | concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity |
| parsimony | quality of being careful with money or resources; thrift |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from different sources |
| fantasize | to indulge in fantasy or reverie; daydream |
| maxim | a saying of proverbial nature; adage |
| pigeonhole | a neat category that usually fails to reflect actual complexities |
| dimension | element making up a complete personality or entity |
| querulous | argumentative |
| confrontation | the clashing of forces or ideas; conflict |
| mechanisms | process or technique for achieving a result |
| coherently | logially or aesthetically ordered or integrated |
| livid | very angry; enraged |
| indecorous | conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct or good taste |
| dissipated | to cause to spread thin or scatter and gradually vanish |
| digress | to turn aside, esp from the main subject or attention |
| toady | one who flatters in hope of gaining favors |
| untenable | not able to be defended or occupied |
| unalterable | not capable of being altered or changed |
