| A | B |
|---|
| laggard | (n) a slow person; (adj) slow; falling behind |
| bolt | (v) to move rapidly |
| endow | (v) provide with some talent quality; give money or property |
| abject | (adj) miserable, wretched; lacking self-respect; degraded |
| germane | (adj) truly relevant; pertinent |
| codicil | (n) an addition to a will |
| crescendo | (n) a gradual increase, climax |
| aperture | (n) an opening; hole |
| flower | (v) steadily grow |
| splice | (v) to untie (as two ropes) by interweaving the strands |
| array | (n) attire, clothing; (v) to place in order |
| martial | (adj) of or suitable for war; warlike; bold; military |
| refrain | (n) a phrase or verse repeated intervals in a song or poem |
| palette | (n) board held by a painter to mix paints on; a set of colors put on |
| quaint | (adj) odd, old-fashioned, strange |
| precognition | (n) clairvoyance relating to an event or state not yet experienced |
| winsome | (adj) generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| vestiges | (n) a trace or visible sign left by something |
| searing | (n) scorching; burning |
| nimble | (adj) quick and light in motion |
