| A | B |
| Prodigious | enourmous |
| Deleterious | injurious; harmful to health or well-being |
| Ominous | threatening |
| Judicious | showing good judgement |
| Placidly | calmly; quietly |
| Desultory | random |
| Stifling | suffocating |
| Rawboned | having little flesh or fat covering the bones; lean |
| Plaits | braids |
| Glistened | shown or sparkled with reflected light |
| Dilapidated | broken down; neglected |
| Remission | lessening of the symtoms of a disease |
| Shards | fragments or broken pieces |
| Cynical | sneering |
| Pervasive | spread throughout |
| Allotted | assigned |
| Reminisce | to think about remembered events |
| Paradoxically | in a contradictory way |
| Impoverished | made at the spur of the mot=ment with materials at hand |