| A | B |
|---|
| conspicuous | noticeable |
| mercurial | quick or changeable in behavior |
| leisure | free and unoccupied time |
| unabashed | unashamed |
| insufferable | unbearable |
| meticulous | extremely careful about details |
| fatalist | one who believes that all events are determined by fate and cannot be changed |
| ostentatiously | in a showy way |
| inarticulate | speechless of unable to express oneself |
| apprehension | a fearful feeling about the future; dread |
| intuition | ability to know immediately, without reasoning |
| sarcastic | speaking with sharp mockery intended to hurt another |
| indignant | filled with anger over some meanness or injustice |
| stealthily | in a secretive or sneaky way |
| ineffectually | without producing the desired effect |
| Auschwitz | Nazi concentration camp in Poland notorious as an extermination center |
| B.B.C. | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| convulsive | an involuntary contraction or spasm of the muscles |
| guilders | monetary units of the Netherlands |
| Gestapo | secret police force of the Nazi state known for terrorism |
