| A | B |
|---|
| prevarications | lies |
| avocation | hobby |
| distort | to twist the truth |
| hors d'oeuvres | food served as an appetizer |
| gestures | a motion made with some part of the body |
| putrid | rotten |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| clarified | to make or become clear |
| conscience | a feeling that keeps one from knowing right from wrong |
| philanthropy | the act of charity |
| incongruous | dissimilar, not belonging together |
| hovel | a small, broken down house |
| ritual | customary series of acts |
| eerie | strange and frightening |
| assassin | a killer especially of a political figure |
| gleam | a brief shine or light |
| subsidize | to provide financial aid |
| disdain | to look down on someone as if someone is beneath you |
| infantile | childish |
| maladjusted | not able to fit happily into life |
| perpetual | continuing, constant |
| omens | clues as to what will happen in the future |
| predicament | a difficult situation |
| mundane | ordinary, common, everyday |
| harboring | to hold in the mind as a grudge |
| interrogating | to question |
| anxiety | a fearful concern or nervousness |
| loathe | to dislike greatly |
| antagonistic | hostile, given to fighting and arguing |
| congealed | to jell or thicken |
