| A | B |
|---|
| cronies | close friends, compantions |
| unobtrusive | not noticible, inconspicuous |
| hidebound | blindly conservative, inflexible |
| pedant | a person overemphasizing insignificant details |
| abominable | extremely bad |
| mangle | to injure severely |
| insensate | cold-blooded, without regard to feeling |
| quail | to draw back in fear, cower |
| pall | a cloth tha covers or shrouds, especially with darkness or gloom |
| conflageration | destructive fire |
| umber | yellow- brown, earth |
| odious | hateful |
| ransack | to search thoroughly or vigorously |
| handbills | printed notices, flyers |
| beholder | one who becomes aware of things through the senses |
| baize | woolen clothlike felt; often covering a gaming table |
| ruminate | to mediate; ponder |
| qualm | a sudden feeling of sickness |
| carbuncles | painful boils, sores; red gemstones |
| sedulously | dilegently |
| ken | knowledge, scope of information |
| amities | friendship |
| tenor | the course of thought or meanint hat rusn through something |
| fortnight | two weeks |
| disquiet | anxiety; uneasiness |
| inscrutable | mysterious, unable to be understood |
