| A | B |
|---|
| jocular in an often clumsy or inappropriate manner | facetious |
| a shattered spear or lance | truncheon |
| having an adhesive quality; sticky | viscid |
| appealing to the emotions; sensational | melodramatic |
| a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease | miasma |
| to make thin in consistency; rarefy | attenuate |
| coolly and patronizingly haughty | supercilious |
| something having the appearance of truth | verisimilitude |
| portuberance; swelling | gibbosity |
| dormant; inactive-especially in the phrase "to lie~" | fallow |
| sluggish in character or disposition; listless | languid |
| speech or conduct not natural to ones self | affectation |
| upset; confuse | discombobulate |
| sympathy marked by community of interest; kinship | affinity |
| being at greatest altitude or on the meridian | culminant |
| a puzzling or difficult problem; an unsolved problem | crux |
| laughably inept; absurd | farcical |
| avenge | vindicate |
| a cause of care or concern | solicitude |
| pleasant, delightful | felicitous |
