| A | B |
| vestibule | a small entranceway |
| prudence | being careful,cautious |
| cascade | a waterfall |
| imputation | to credit or blame someone |
| cranny | an opening or crack |
| privation | lack of the basic needs of life |
| apparition | a ghost, a strange sight |
| vexation | annoyance, something that bothers you |
| gamut | the complete range of something |
| edifice | a building |
| poise | dignified and serene behavior |
| adulation | praise |
| bevy | a group |
| pall | anything dark or gloomy that covers. . . |
| dowry | the money or property a woman brings to her husband |
| pigment | color |
| anguish | great mental pain or suffering |
| ravages | to destroy; signs of destruction |
| tresses | long hair |
| scrutiny | careful inspection |
| adobe | sun-dried bricks (mud) |
| profusion | in abundance |
| depreciate | to belittle or make seem less valuable |
| instigates | to stir up (trouble) |
| scoured | to search through, to scrape |
| avail | to be of use |
| compromise | to make an agreement |
| hast | has |
| emigrate | leave one place to go live in another |
| appertaining | to belong, to relate to |
| parsimony | very stingy, not like to spend money |
| mendicancy | poverty, being poor |
| laden | loaded down with weight |
| untillable | you can't grow anything there |
| exhorbitant | unreasonably high |
| incessant | continuing, without stopping |
| distracted | having one's attention diverted |
| aghast | terrified or scared |
| disconsolate | unable to be comforted |
| amiss | in the wrong manner |
| prevalent | common or widespread |
| inconsequential | unimportant |
| ardent | burning, very hot |
| ecstatic | in a state of intense delight |
| pious | showing religious devotion |