| A | B |
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| pall | something that covers or has an effect of gloom, drape |
| swarthy | af a dark color, complexion, or cast |
| pediment | a triangular space that forms the gable of a low-pitched roof and that is usually filled with relief sculpture in classical architucture |
| doleful | causing grief or affliction, cheerless, sad |
| languid | weak, listless, slow |
| recluse | a person who withdraws from society |
| poignancy | painfully affecting the feelings, touching, pleasurably stimulating |
| buckram | a stiff-finished heavily sized fabric of cotton or linen used for interlinings in bookbinding |
| voluble | talkative |
| knoll | a small round hill, mound |
| larches | a type of tree that belongs to the pine family with short fascicled, decidious leaves |
| sinewy | tough, stringy, strong |
| bracken | a large thicket course ferns |
| daguerreotypes | an early photograph produced on a silver or silver-colored copper plate, the process of producing such phtographs |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach, making moral observations |
| ponderous | heavy, clumsy because of weight and size, lifeless, dull |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or ridicule, ode, caricature |
| penumbra | fringe, outlying or surrounding region |
| cornice | a tip course that crowns a wall, a decorative band of metal or wood used to conceal certain fixtures, horizontal molding thaat completes a building |
| querolous | habitually complaining |
| acerbity | being acidic in temper, mood, or tone, bitterness |
