| A | B |
| Laudable | deserving commendation: high praise |
| belligerently | violently disrespectful |
| procreant | capable of supporting and reproducing life |
| rapt | completely interested or absorbed in thought |
| infirmity | state of being weak in health or body |
| speculative | to advance to a point beyond what is known |
| augment | to increase or enlarge in size |
| temperate | neither hot nor cold |
| entreat | ask for or request earnestly |
| perilous | full of or involving peril: dangerous |
| recoil | a movement back from an impact |
| rancor | bitter, long lasting ill will or resentment |