| A | B |
| Absurd | completely devoid of wisdom or good sense |
| Accentuated | stressed |
| Amorphous | shapeless |
| Anguish | torment |
| Arsenic | a poisonous metallic element |
| Caste | social class separated from others |
| Chinks | narrow opening between planks |
| Conjecture | an educated guess |
| Corporeal | having material substance |
| Debilitated | weak, feeble, lacking strength |
| Heliotrope | green chalcedony with red spots |
| Imbecile | moron, retarded person |
| Implacable | not capable of being appeased |
| Incarnate | represent in bodily form |
| Insomnia | sleep difficulty |
| Irrational | without reason |
| Irrevocable | impossible to retract |
| limbo | the state of being disregarded or forgotten |