| A | B |
|---|
| bizarre | strange; odd; fantastical |
| fluted | having grooves, channels, or furrows, such as on a column or glass |
| hemorrhage | excessive internal bleeding or gush of blood |
| apprehension | anxiety; trepidation; uneasiness |
| seance | a meeting at which a spiritualist attempts to receive communications from the spirits of the dead |
| unregenerate | unrepentant |
| gilt | coated or edged with gold or a gold-like substance |
| amorphous | shapeless; formless |
| retractable | able to be pulled up or in or back |
| woebegone | miserable; wretched; despairing |
| hackman | taxi-driver |
| lacquer | polish; varnish; gloss |
| intimation | hint; suggestion |
| saturated | flooded; inundated; soaked or imbued thoroughly or completely |
| antechamber | entrance; foyer; lobby |
| consumption | tuberculosis |
| resignation | acquiescence; agreement |
| inquisitor | questioner; interrogator |
| luminous | glowing; radiant; resplendent |
| hypodermic | something that gets under one?s skin; stimulating; energizing |
| tremor | quiver; vibration; shake |
| empathetic | compassionate; demonstrating ready comprehension of others' emotional states |
| introspective | meditative; thoughtful; pensive |
| debilitating | weakening; incapacitating |
| didactic | instructive; moralizing; lecturing |
| flighty | erratic; changeable; capricious |
| apathetic | indifferent; unconcerned |
| ostentatious | showy; grandiose; pretentious |
| phobia | fear |
| reprieve | acquittal; pardon |
| perfunctory | unthinking; mechanical; obligatory; token |
| balm | salve; comfort; consolation |
| restorative | soothing; curative |
| sentimentality | mawkishness; falsely emotional in a maudlin way; extravagant or affected feeling or emotion |
| motif | a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., esp. in a literary, artistic, or musical work |
| paradox | statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.metaphorical, |
| pun | a play on words |
| red herring | something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand; a misleading clue |
| theme | subject; premise |
| undercurrent | An underlying tendency, force, or influence often contrary to what is superficially evident; an intimation |
| simile | a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things, using such words as like or as |
