| A | B |
|---|
| belligerent | warlike; hostile |
| dominant | influential; controlling |
| ecstacy | supreme joy |
| fastidiousness | refined taste; daintiness |
| ignominiously | with disgrace or shame |
| imperiously | arrogant or domineering way |
| inexorable | inevitable; unavoidable |
| insidious | sneaky and dangerous; treacherous |
| introspective | looking inward; reflective |
| malingerer | one who fakes illness to avoid work |
| obdurate | hard-hearted; stubborn |
| pandemonium | wild uproar; disorder |
| paradox | a seeming contradiction |
| precipitate | too quick; rash |
| primordial | belonging to an ancient/earlier age |
| prostrate | lying flat; completely exhausted |
| rampant | wild; uncontrolled; wide-spread |
| retrogression | return to a more primitive state |
| solidarity | unity |
| travail | difficulty |
| vicarious | experienced through another |
