| A | B |
|---|
| mien | bearing or manner |
| disconsolate | cheerless, inconsolate, unhappy |
| traverse | to cross, to pass over |
| amply | sufficiently, abundantly |
| diaphanous | transparent or translucent |
| lawny | grass like |
| calamity | a great misfortune or disaster; misery |
| unseemly | inappropriate |
| lamentation | loud cry or wail |
| splutter | to emit particles of something explosively, spatter |
| malady, maladies(pl) | disase or disorder of the body |
| peril | grave risk, danger, jopardy |
| marrow | soft vascular tissue that is a site of blood cell production; the essential part, strength, vitality |
| scud | clouds or spray driven by wind |
| disinter | unearth, exhume, bring into the open |
| besieger(s) | energetic petitioner. attacker |
| semblance | an outward appearance |
| pious | devout in religious service |
| cheval glass | mirror |
| farrago | a confused mixture; an assortment |
| avow | declare, confess, admit |
| pungent | sharp sensation the smell or taste |
| volatile | changing to vapor; marked by changeableness |
| whet | to sharpen; to make keen or eaer, to stimulate |
| tincture | substance made as a compound |
| incipient | initial stage |
| ludicrous | ridiculous |
| accouterment | an accessory |
| graduated | characterized by arrangement in degrees for measuring |
| ebulltiion | the process of boiling or bubbling |
| metamorphoses | (v) to change form or nature; (n) a profound change in form |
| prodigy | 1. a person of extraordinary talent 2. something monstrous |
| turpitude | depravity, base character |
