| A | B |
| conjectured | reasoned or guessed |
| diminutive | very small |
| alleged | declared, asserted, often withouth proof |
| edict | official order |
| quelled | subdued |
| copious | wordy; profuse |
| prevail | predominate |
| odious | hateful; offensive |
| viscous | having the form of a sticky liquid |
| pernicious | wicked; extremely harmful |
| glutted | overfilled |
| deference | respect |
| scrupulous | extremely careful and peruse in deciding right and wrong |
| censure | to condemn |
| expedient | convenient means to an end |
| digressed | wandered off the subject |
| brevity | brief |
| animonsity | hostilities; violent hatreds or resentments |
| cavalcade | parade of |
| proffered | offered or proposed |
| civility | courtesy |
| malicious | intentional mischievous harm or spite |
| discoursing | talking |
| garrett | an attic |
| lunacy | madness |
| promiscuously | casually |
| diverted | amused |
| abated | lessoned |
| calamitous | bringing great trouble |
| contend | compete and struggle |
| repulsed | driven away |
| deterred | prevented |
| slovenly | untidy |
| noxious | harmful |
| Aversion | dislike |
| candor | honesty |
| mortal | fatal |
| importuning | making repeated demands of |
| prodigious | huge |
| procure | to obtain or get |