| A | B |
|---|
| Abominable | Disgusting; hateful |
| Amend | Improve |
| Apothecary | Druggist; pharmacist |
| Avarice | Too great a desire for wealth |
| Bequest | A gift left by means of a will |
| Blasphemy | Mockery (of God) |
| Concede | To grant |
| Credentials | Evidence of a person’s position |
| Daunted | Intimidated |
| Efficacious | Effective |
| Excommunication | To deprive the right of church membership |
| Extort | To gain by or get by threat |
| Grisly | Terrifying |
| Implore | The act of begging |
| Lineage | Ancestry |
| Miscreant | Criminals; literally, “unbelievers |
| Pallor | Paleness |
| Pestilence | The plague on something |
| Privy | Secretive; privileged |
| Prowess | Outstanding ability |
| Prudent | Careful; cautious |
| Scurrility | Vulgar or abusive language |
| Subtle | Not immediately obvious, operating in a hidden way |
| Suffice | Satisfy |
| Superfluity | Excess |
| Surmount | To overcome |
| Temporal | Limited to this world; not spiritual |
| Vengeance | Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed, retribution |
| Wary | On guard; watchful |
| Wimpled | Wrinkled |
