| A | B |
|---|
| alien | foreign |
| seductive | enticing, alluring |
| welt | raised mark or swelling |
| unruliness | disorder, rowdiness, wildness |
| warp | to distort or twist |
| artifice | deception or pretense; imitative trickery |
| singular | particularly remarkable or outstanding |
| hybrid | a mixture, fusion or amalgam |
| foment | to stir up or provoke |
| manicured | carefully tended and trimmed |
| plush | lushly luxurious |
| bountiful | abundant |
| entrepreneur | a visionary, risk-taking businessperson |
| dredge | to remove sand, silt, mud, etc. from the bottom of |
| plat | to divide into small plots of ground |
| carnivorous | meat-eating |
| vault | an arched structure forming a ceiling or roof over a hall or other large space |
| incongruity | inconsistency; the quality of not matching |
| Sisyphus | allusion to a king of Corinth, punished in Hades for his misdeeds by eternally having to roll a heavy stone up a hill: every time he approached the top, the stone escaped his grasp and rolled to the bottom |
| hypothermia | an abnormally low body temperature |
| suspend | to stop or put on hold |
| stoic | demonstrating the attitude that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity |
| austere | harshly severe |
| bracing | briskly cold |
| proprietary | possessive, controlling |
| extremity | heightened or intense state or condition |
| perversity | social deviance |
| menacing | threatening |
| agglomeration | a heap or cluster of usually disparate elements |
| arrested | halted, stopped |
| duality | dichotomy; The quality or character of being twofold |
| benevolence | kindness |
| concreteness | specificity; non-abstraction |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| simile | comparison between two unlike things, joined by such words as like or as |
| alliteration | the use of the same sound at the beginning of each word or each stressed syllable for poetic effect |
| parallelism | The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases. |
| juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
| anaphora | repetition of words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences |
| polysyndeton | the use of multiple conjunctions joining items in a series |
| syntactic | referring to the arrangement of words in a sentence or phrase |
