| A | B |
|---|
| apothecary | Pharmacist |
| beadle | city official, lower in rank |
| condescend | assume an air of superiority |
| illicit | unlawful |
| impotent | powerless |
| impudent | shamelessly bold |
| vapid | not lively; without spirit |
| piety | devotion to religious duties |
| contemptuous | scornful; despising; disdainful |
| taciturn | almost always silent |
| contentious | belligerent; argumentative |
| unsullied | untouched or unused |
| arbitrate | decide; determine |
| tacit | unspoken; silently understood |
| mortified | embarrassed; shamed |
| articulate | to express oneself clearly or effectively |
| dictum | formal statement of principle |
| propensity | natural inclination; leaning |
| assuage | to lessen or to calm |
| austere | stern and forbidding in manner; somber; grave |
