| A | B |
|---|
| MERCENARY | one that serves merely for wages |
| MORBID | abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings |
| NECROMANCY | magic, sorcery |
| PATHOS | an emotion of sympathetic pity |
| ORB | something circular circle, orbit |
| REQUITAL | something given in return, compensation, or retaliation |
| SWARTHY | being of a dark color, complexion, or cast |
| SMITE | to attack or afflict suddenly and injuriously |
| UNSCRUPULOUS | unprincipled |
| SURMISE | to imagine or infer on slight grounds |
| STIGMA | a mark of shame or discredit stain |
| ORACLES | a person as a priest through whom a deity is believed to speak |
| LORE | something that is taught, lesson |
| WROUGHT | deeply stirred, excited |
| APOTHEOSIS | elevation to divine status |
| INTIMATIONS | the act of making known, announce |
| NETHER | situated down or below lower |
| CONJECTURE | a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork |
| NECROMANCER | a person who is believed to communicate with the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future of influencing the course of events |
| PORTENT | something that foreshadows a coming event, omen |
| BEQUEATHED | to hand down, transmit |
| RECLUSE | marked by withdrawal from society, solitary |
| PENITENCE | regret for sin or wrongdoing |
| SABLE | the color black, dark |
