| A | B |
| accentuate | to emphasize |
| barrage | to deliver rapidly, one after another |
| disheveled | messy, disordered |
| emancipate | to free |
| fervently | with great feeling |
| gentile | a person who is not a Jew |
| harangue | a ranting speech |
| interim | time in between; interval |
| silhouette | to project on a background, showing only the outline |
| zealousness | eagerness to pursue something |
| abominations | objects of extreme hatred |
| acquiesce | to accept without argument |
| adherents | followers, believers |
| cajole | persuade with flattery |
| degenerate | to decline in quality |
| gesticulate | to gesture while speaking |
| luminous | full of light |
| marauding | killing and raiding |
| phenomenon | an unusual fact or occurrence |
| subconscious | thinking process of which a person is unaware |
| desecration | violation, destruction |
| disputant | person in an argument |
| dogmatic | believing in ideas despite lack of evidence |
| emendation | correction |
| empiricist | one who forms theories through experience rather than formal study |
| excommunicate | to cutt of or ban, especially from a group or religion |
| lament | complain |
| renaissance | rebirth, renewal |
| sporadically | off and on |
| tenuously | weakly |