| A | B |
|---|
| fiscal | adj. financial; having to do with money |
| staple | n. a major, part, element, or feature |
| carnage | n. bloodshed, massacre, bloody slaughter |
| simultaneously | adv. happening at the same time |
| burnish | v. to make shiny or glossy |
| virile | adj. strong, forceceful, vigorous; manly |
| dilapidated | adj. in partial ruin or disrepair |
| cavort | v. to leap or romp about |
| taunt | v. to drive or provoke by ridicule |
| languish | v. to live under distressing conditions |
| inquisative | adj. inclined to ask many questions or seek information |
| juncture | n. the point a which two things join; a point of time or critical moment |
| wrest | v. to pull or force away violently with a twisting motion |
| nectar | n. any delicious beverage |
| Gentile | n. a person who is not Jewish |
| gnarled | adj. knotty and twisted |
| vagrant | n. a person who wanders from place to place |
| recompense | n. something done to make up for an injury; compensation |
