| A | B |
|---|
| hale | exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health |
| dissociated | having had a relation or connection broken |
| trifling | lacking in significance or worth |
| irrevocable | impossible to retract or revoke |
| censure | harsh criticism or disapproval |
| rapt | wholly absorbed as in thought, deeply moved |
| runnel | a small stream |
| perverse | marked by immorality, resistant to guidance or discipline |
| lowing | making the throat noise of a cow |
| flouted | treated with contemptuous disregard |
| bereavement | state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one |
| gaunt | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| abject | most unfortunate or miserable, showing humiliation, submissiveness, utter resignation or hopelessness |
| cessation | a stopping |
| approbation | official recognition or approval |
| timbre | the distinctive property of a complex sound |
| precursor | an indication of the approach of something or someone, a person who goes before or announces the coming of another |
| ubiquity | the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) |
| maul | a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges, injure badly by beating, split (wood) with a maul and wedges |
| portentous | puffed up with vanity, of momentous or ominous significance |
| nihilist | one who supports a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
| opaque | not clear, not clearly understood or expressed |
| irremediable | impossible to remedy or correct or redress |
| composite | consisting of separate interconnected parts |
| keen | having a sharp cutting edge or point, as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument |
| sibilance | a sound having, containing, or producing the sound of the s or the sh in sash |
| travail | hard work, to labor hard |
| fulcrum | the pivot about which a lever turns |
| crest | the top point of a mountain or hill |
| ethics | moral values and rules, ideas of right and wrong |
| implacable | impossible to appease |
