| A | B |
| miscreant | criminals |
| 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 |
| avarice | to great a desire for money |
| daunted | intimidated |
| abominable | digusting and hateful |
| bequest | a gift left by means of a will |
| extort | to gain by or get by threat |
| apothecary | druggist |
| amend | to improve |
| grisly | terrifying |
| excommunicate | to deprive the right of church membership |
| vengence | retribution |
| wary | watchful |
| wimpled | wrinkled |
| blasphemy | mockery (of God) |
| credentials | evidence of a person's position |
| efficacious | effective |
| lineage | ancestry |
| implore | the act of begging |
| concede | to grant |