| A | B |
|---|
| Menagerie | Place where animals are kept Noun |
| Ornithology | Study of birds Noun |
| Antidote | Remedy for poison of evil Noun |
| Hypochondriac | One who in morbidly anxious about personal health or suffer from imagined illness Noun |
| Derogatory | Expressing low esteem- belittling- disparaging Adjective |
| Lament | mourn; deplore |
| Maudlin | weakly sentimental and tearful |
| Nostalgia | 1 – homesickness 2 – yearning for the past |
| Pathos | quality in events or in art (literature- music-etc) that arouses our pity |
| Pensive | thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy |
| Poignant | painfully touching; piercing |
| Burly | strongly and heavily built; husky |
| Buxom | plump and attractive |
| Emaciated | made unnaturally think; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness (ant. - fleshy) |
| Svelte | slender; lithe |
| Obsequious | showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning |
| apiary | place where bees are kept |
| aviary | place where birds are kept |
| malignant | threatening to cause death; very evil |
| benign | not dangerous |
| eulogize | praise; laud; glorify |
| malign | speak evil of; vilify |
| stigma | mark of disgrace |
| therapeutic | leading or causing a cure |
| levity | inappropriate humor, lightness of manner, joking |
| libel | false publication or writing to defame or hurt a person |
| slander | flalse statements, verbal or oral, which hurt a person |
| ludicrous | humorous, ridiculous |
