| A | B |
|---|
| apace | swiftly; with speed; at a fast clip |
| covenant | a binding and solemn agreement |
| devious | not in a straight path; roundabout; winding; deviating from the normal course |
| invidious | such as to excite ill will or envy; giving offense |
| mutable | that can be changed; inconstant; fickle; tending to frequent change |
| nascent | coming into being; being born; beginning to form |
| obeisance | a gesture of respect ; homage; deference |
| paltry | practically worthless; trifling; insignificant; petty |
| prefatory | serving as an introduction; an introductory statement |
| profane | showing disrespect or contempt for sacred things; irreverent; not connected with religious matters |
| quintessence | the most perfect manifestation of a thing; in medieval philosophy, the ultimate substance that composed the heavenly bodies |
| slough | to shed or throw off; get rid of; the skin of a snake that is cast off; any cast off covering |
| stricture | sharp, adverse criticism; censure; a limiting condition |
| surveillance | watch kept over a person, esp. a prisoner; supervision or inspection |
| sylvan | characteristic of the woods or forest; wooded |
| testy | touchy; peevish; irritable |
| travesty | burlesque; a crude, distorted representation of something |
| tyro | novice; a beginner in learning something |
| unremitting | persistent; not stopping |
| vertigo | a subjective sensation of dizziness in which an individual feels that he or his surrounding is whirling about sickeningly |
