| A | B |
|---|
| harrows | to cultivating implement set with spikes; or torment, vex |
| usurp | to seize power unrightfully; to take over |
| avouch | to declare as a matter of fact or as a thing that can be proved |
| parley | to conference; discuss, confab |
| impress | to take by force for public service; |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel; to imitate and model |
| mettle | vigor and strength of spirit or temperament |
| portentous | significant; fateful; eliciting amazement or wonder; prodigious |
| harbingers | one that pioneers in or initiates a major change; a forerunner; precursor |
| privy | private, secret |
| malicious | desire to cause pain and injury, or distress to others |
| auspicious | a favorable sign, propitious; boding well |
| mirth | cheer, joy, delightful |
| dirge | a slow, solemn, and mournful song or poem; a lamentation |
| dole | grief; sorrow |
| obsequious | fawning; toadying; sycophantic flattering |
| impious | irreverent; sinful; wicked; immoral; not pious |
| peevish | irritable; ill-tempered; querulous |
| distill | purify; condense |
| tenable | plausible; sound; reasonable |
| requite | retaliate; pay back; revenge |
| countenance | to put up with; allow; stand; or expression; face |
| wax | to grow; increase |
| credent | ready to believe as true and real |
| prodigal | wasteful; profligate; excessive |
| dalliance | play, especially amorous play |
| importuned | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| enmity | hostility; hate; ill-will |
| prenominate | previously mentioned |
| perusal | examination; scrutiny, inspection |
| impotence | the quality or state of being powerless, ineffective |
| prescripts | prescribed as a rule |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| quintessence | the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form |
| Lenten | meager; abstemious |
| gratis | without charge or recompense; free |
| affectation | speech or conduct not natural to oneself; an adopted mannerism |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting ; stingy, miserly |
| contumely | harsh language or treatment arising from haughtiness and contempt |
| knavish | dishonest; roguish, mischievous |
| keen | sharp; acute |
| visage | face, countenance |
| apoplexed | greatly agitated; having a stroke |
| cozened | cheated; deceived through shrewdness |
| calumny | misrepresentation intended to blacken a reputation; slander |
| unction | unguent; an ointment for healing |
| prating | talkative; babbling; prattling |
| pith | the essence; the core |
| craven | cowardly; timorous |
| superfluous | above what is necessary; in excess; redundant |
| ostentation | formal ceremony; usually showy, extravagant |
| mountebank | a charlatan; a quack; an unscrupulous pretender |
| pate | top of the head |
| indentures | contracts; a binding agreement or document |
| equivocation | prevarication, using ambiguity to deliberately mislead |
| shriving | confessing, purifying |
| umbrage | to take offense or insult |
| germane | relevant; connected to the point or topic |
| felicity | very well suited, appropriate, apt; or pleasant and delightful |
