| A | B |
|---|
| brandishing | threatening; flourishing; waving around (a weapon) |
| ponderously | heavy; difficult to carry or manage; awkward |
| eloquence | fluent and powerful use of language |
| precedent | A judicial decision that may be used as a standard in future similar cases |
| lamentations | cries of mourning; passionate expressions of grief |
| deference | respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will of another |
| stridently | speaking in a harsh tone |
| paradoxically | seeming absurd but may be true; inconsistently |
| insinuate | to hint gradually or subtly |
| titanic | huge; gigantic |
