| A | B |
|---|
| omnipotent | all-powerful; all-knowing |
| pacify | to make peaceful, to calm |
| perfidy | disloyalty, treacherousness |
| persevere | to continue steadfastly, despite difficulties |
| pestilential | troublesom, pernicious |
| pilfer | to steal |
| protrude | to stick out from a surface |
| recompense (v) | to repay, to reward, to compensate |
| recompense (n) | repayment, reward, compensation |
| subsist | continue to survive |
| sundry | various, several |
| traverse | to travel across |
| unalienable | unable to be given away or taken away |
| characterization | the act of creating and developing a character in a literary work |
| climax | high point of interest or suspense |
| contrast (n) | a clearly seen difference |
| contrast (v) | to compare two things to show differences |
| couplet | a two-line group in poetry |
| dramatic monologue | a speech by one character in a literary work to a silent listener |
| elegy | sorrowful or serious poem |
| end rhyme | where rhyming words are at the end of the lines in a poem |
| palisade | a line of high cliffs |
| palisades | a fence of pointed wooden stakes |
