| A | B |
| obsequious | Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning. |
| termagant | A quarrelsome, scolding woman; a shrew |
| impunity | Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm |
| assiduity | Persistent application or diligence; unflagging effort |
| incessant | Continuing without interruption |
| alacrity | Cheerful willingness; eagerness or quickness |
| sordid | Filthy or dirty; foul (in either physical or moral sense) |
| virulence | Extremely infectious, malignant, or poisonous: Bitterly hostile or antagonistic; hateful |
| vacillate | To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another |
| elucidate | To make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify |
| sonorous | Having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound. |
| pallor (pallid) | Extreme or unnatural paleness. |
| countenance | Appearance, especially the expression of the face |
| cadaverous | Suggestive of death; corpselike |
| fissure | A long narrow opening; a crack |
| sumptuous | luxurious, expensive, lavish |
| incipient | beginning to exist or appear |
| delirium | mental confusion, anxiety, disorientation |
| dissipate | to scatter or disperse in various directions |
| reverie | a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing |
| pine | to yearn deeply or suffer with great longing |
| malady | a chronic disease of the body |
| appellation | a name, title or designation |
| dilapidation | a severe state of disrepair or neglect |
| trepidation (trepidancy) | tremulous fear |
| corroborate | to make certain; to confirm the validity of something |
| conviviality | being friendly and agreeable |
| conflagration | an extensive and destructive fire |
| denouement | the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot |
| sublime | elevated or lofty in thought; impressing the mind with a sense of awe or grandeur |