| A | B |
|---|
| specious | deceptive |
| lolled | lounged |
| enmity | ill-will |
| embossed | raised |
| pursed | puckered |
| strident | harsh, loud |
| furtive | sly, devious |
| pallidly | in a lifeless, pale manner |
| mortification | shame, humiliation |
| suffusion | flush, blush, color |
| hiatus | break in time, pause |
| martyred | suffering |
| ebullience | livliness |
| recrimination | accusation made in retaliation |
| tumult | uproar |
| festooned | decorated |
| capering | playful leaping or dancing |
| tendril | slender hanging plant structure |
| inscrutable | not easily understood or interpreted |
| vicissitudes | difficulties, hardships |
| contrite | sincerely sorry for shortcomings |
| rapt | completely absorbed |
| tacit | understood but not spoken |
| generic | without distinction; general |
| belligerence | agressive stubborn attitude |
| chastisement | punishment |
| myriad | innumerable |
| crooning | singing softly |
| swarthiness | darkness of skin |
| disinclination | preference for avoiding something |
| balm | healing agent |
| ravenously | greedily |
| malevolently | with hostility |
| gyration | revolving motion |
| jeeringly | mockingly |
| ludicrous | ridiculous, absurd |
| decorum | proper manners, good taste |
| gibbering | babbling |
| flaling | thrashing violently |
| tremulously | timidly, shaking |
| embroiled | involved in conflict |
| constrainedly | with restraint |
| chasm | deep cleft or gorge |
| leviathan | Old Testament sea monster |
| exulting | joyful |
| mutinously | rebelliously |
| brandishing | waving in a threatening manner |
| glowered | looked angrily |
| sagely | wisely |
| daunting | dismaying, overwhelmingly intimidating |
| bravado | foolhardiness; pretense of bravery |
| sanctity | holiness; inviolability |
| fervor | intensity |
| taboo | rule forbidding something |
| demoniac | fiendish |
| corpulent | with a large, bulky body |
| derision | ridicule |
| purged | cleansed, freed of something unwanted |
| luminous | glowing |
| myopia | near-sightedness |
| quavered | with a voice that trembled |
| cessation | stopping |
| talisman | object that's a charm against evil |
| distended | swollen from internal pressure |
