| A | B |
|---|
| abode | a place where one lives or stays |
| acquisitive | eager to acquire; grasping |
| ambivalent | simultaneous conflicting feelings |
| arbitrary | not fixed by rules but left to one's own choice |
| ascetic | self denial; without the usual pleasure or comforts |
| augury | divination from omens |
| austere | having a stern or severe look or manner; very plain |
| barren | not bearing; not producing; empty; devoid |
| bellicose | hostile; warlike |
| cavalier | free and easy; casual or indifferent; a gallant or courteous gentleman |
| cessation | ceasing or stopping |
| craven | very cowardly; abjectly afraid |
| cryptic | having a hidden or ambiguous meaning |
| defer | to put off to a future timel to give in to the wish of another |
| dejected | in low spirits; depressed |
| desist | to cease; to stop; to abstain |
| despicable | deserving to be despised; contemptible |
| dire | arousing terror or causing extreme distress;urgent |
| dormant | sleeping; inoperative; inactive; live, but not actively growing |
| doting | foolishly or excessively fond |
| enumeration | to determine the number of; to count; to name one by one |
| fetid | having a bad smell as of decay; putrid |
| glib | done in a smooth,offhand fashion;spoken in a smooth easy manner |
| introspection | looking into one's own mind; self analysis |
| lamentation | outward expression of grief |
| lax | loose; not strict or exact |
| patriarchs | the father or ruler of the family |
| petulance | impatience or irritability; state of being peevish |
| preponderance | greater in amount,influence,power, weight |
| prevalence | stronger; widely existing |
| provincial | of or like that of rural provinces; countrified |
| reciprocal | done, felt, given in return; equivalent or interhangeable |
| reconcile | to make friendly again; to settle a argument or compose a difference |
| stalwart | having a firm foundation; brave, resolute; firm, unyielding |
| sumptuous | involving great expense; lavish; magnificent;splendid |
| tribulations | great misery or distress as from oppression, deep sorrow |
| turbulent | full of commotion or wild disorder; violently agitated |
| ubiquitous | present or seeming to be prsent everywhere at the same time |
| unabashed | not embarrased; not self conscious |
| visage | the face;countenance;appearance;aspect |
| volatile | vaporizing or evaporating quickly; unstable; explosive |
