| A | B |
| abhorrence | a feeling of great hatred |
| apparent | plain to see |
| callous | unfeeling; insensitive |
| conjure | to cause to appear as if by magic |
| divert | to turn aside |
| eloquent | having a flow of speech that has grace |
| fallow | uncultivated or inactive; barren |
| incorrigible | too firmly fixed in bad ways |
| meager | lacking fullnessor richness; poor or scanty |
| nuisance | a thing or person that annoys |
| obliterate | to remove all traces of |
| portcullis | a strong gate sliding up and down in grooves |
| ramifications | results of branching into parts |
| strenuous | very active; requiring much energy |
| tributary | a stream that flows into a larger stream |