| A | B |
|---|
| acute | extremely sharp or intense |
| blissful | feeling very happy and content |
| deliberation | doing something slowly and with care |
| derision | making fun of someone |
| dismembered | to cut, tear, or pull the arms and legs off a body |
| dissemble | make believe; pretend |
| dissimulation | a hiding of one's true feelings |
| first person | the narrator is a character in the story |
| gesticulations | extreme body movements;very animated gestures |
| hypocritical | insincere, false; |
| mad | crazy, foolish; not of sound mind |
| motif | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a story |
| sagacity | keen intelligence; shrewdness; wisdom |
| suavity | the act of appearing gracious and friendly |
| suspense | a feeling of dread about what is going to happen next. |
| symbolism | an object that represents something else |
