| A | B |
| uncanny | mysterious; eerie |
| tactful | keen sense of what to do |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| indecipherable | so messy that it cannot be read |
| tedious | long and tiresome |
| pulsate | to expand and contract rhythmically |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| adolescent | growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful |
| unkempt | dowdy; messy |
| orphan | a child deprived by death of one or both parents |