| A | B |
|---|
| estuary | a water passage where the tide meets a river current |
| ascetic | practicing strict self denial as a means of religious discipline |
| concertina | a musical instrument from the accordian family |
| sententious | given to pompous moralizing |
| gabardine | English laborer's smock |
| languid | sluggish in character |
| declivity | a downward slope |
| recrudescence | breaking out again of something dangerous |
| rapacious | grasping; greedy |
| moribund | being in a dying state |
| supercilious | hautily scornful |
| prevaricator | liar |
| imperialism | practice of extending power domination of a nation by territorial acquisitions |
| mephistopheles | devil |
| pall | someething that covers, darkens, or produces a gloomy effect |
| enigma | something puzzling |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| insipid | not tasty |
| emissary | an agent sent on a mission to represent another |
| apostle | one who pioneers a cause |
