| A | B |
| Shrift | confession |
| Enmity | mutual hatred; hostility; rancor |
| Vile | morally despicable; physically repulsive; foul; degrading |
| Fiend | demon; a person excessively devoted to a pursuit |
| Reconcile | to cause to be friendly again; adjust; settle |
| Fickle | inconsistent; not firm in disposition or character |
| Inundation | overflow; an excess |
| Shroud | a cloth put over a dead body; grave clothes |
| Aloof | removed or distant physically or emotionally |
| Ambiguities | can be understood in more than one way; two possible meanings |