| A | B |
|---|
| VICISSITUDE | unexpectedly changing circumstances |
| ANTIQUITY | the quality of being ancient |
| SOLACE | comfort in sorrow |
| INTROSPECTION | the examination of one's own mental and emotional state |
| IRREFRAGABLE | not to be disputed or contested |
| UNCOUTH | awkward or clumsy |
| WEATHERCOCK | a weather vane in the shape of a rooster |
| MUTABILITY | being liable or subject to change |
| COMPORT | to conduct or behave |
| OBEISANCE | a bodily gesture, as a bow, expressing respect |
| DEVOUT | sincere or hearty |
| BARTER | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another |
| ENSHRINED | preserved or cherished as sacred |
| GRANDAM | an old woman grandmother |
| AUGHT | at all |
| PITHY | having substance and point |
| GILD | to give an attractive but often deceptive appearance to |
| TARRY | stay, sojourn |
| POTENTATE | one who wields controlling power |
| STUPEFIED | astonished |
| MALIGNANT | disposed to cause harm deliberately |
| GRATUITOUS | without apparent reason or justification |
| DELL | a secluded hollow or small valley usually covered with trees or turf |
| REQUITE | to make return for repay |
| BETIMES | at times, occasionally |
| PLEBIAN | one of the common people |
| QUAFF | to drink a beverage deeply |
| WORMWOOD | something bitter and grievous bitterness |
| LEES | the settling of liquor during fermentation and aging dregs |
| EFFERVESCE | to show liveliness or exhilaration |
| MIRTH | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| QUARTERSTAFF | a long stout staff formerly used as a weapon and wielded with one hand in the middle and the other between the middle and the end |
| BUCKLER | a shield worn on the left arm |
| BROADSWORD | a sword with a broad blade for cutting rather than thrusting |
| SCRUPLE | an ethical consideration or principle that inhabits action |
| PROBITY | adherence to the highest principles and ideals uprightness |
| ANIMADVERSION | adverse and typically ill-natured or unfair criticism |
| GALLIARD | gay, lively |
| BERTH | safe distance |
