| A | B |
|---|
| PAUPER | a very poor person |
| GIBE | to tease with taunting words |
| MEED | a fitting return or or recompense |
| DESPOTS | a ruler with absolute power and authority |
| FOLIAGE | a cluster of leaves, flowers and branches |
| SEMBLANCE | outward and often specious appearance or show |
| IMBIBED | to receive into the mind and retain |
| OBVIATED | to see beforehand and dispose of; making unnecessary |
| ETHEREAL | celestial, heavenly |
| CLEW | clue |
| CHASM | a marked division, separation or difference |
| LUNACY | wild foolishness; insanity |
| ACQUIESCING | to accept or comply tacitly or passively |
| STAFF | a long stick carried in the hand for support in walking |
| WIRY | lean and strong |
| BEHEST | an earnest request |
| RANKLE | to cause persistent keen irratation or bitter resentment |
| PROPINQUITY | nearness in place or time |
| USURP | to seize and hold by force or without legal right |
| RETRIBUTION | punishment given in return for some wrong committed; judgment |
| ABSTRUSE | difficult to understand |
| APPELLATION | identifying name or title |
| DELETERIOUS | having an unexpected harmful effect |
| IMPORTUNATE | troublesomely urgent |
| LATENTY | hidden |
| PROPENSITY | tendency |
| STIGMATIZED | identified with disgrace |
| TORPID | sluggish |
