| A | B |
|---|
| contemptuous | scornful |
| derricks | frameworks or twoers over deep drill holes |
| doleful | downcast; sorrowful |
| receded | moved backward; decreased |
| tepid | lukewarm |
| wizened | withered |
| plummet | drop; fall |
| zygote | individual just beginning to develop |
| faltering | hesitating |
| languid | lacking in energy or spirit |
| vivaciousness | liveliness |
| derelicts | drifters; hobos; a person in shambles |
| proprietor | owner |
| querulously | irritably |
| shim | a thin piece of wood, metal, or stone used to fill in space between things |
| vagrant | drifter; hobo |
| integrated | joined together; blended |
| ostracism | exclusion; state of being excluded |
| transcend | rise above |
| decorous | proper; respectable |
| epaulets | ornaments on the shoulders of a jacket |
| exhortation | plea; urging |
| imperiously | in a bossy manner |
| pinnacles | peaks' high points |
| ramparts | wall-like ridges |
| feral | savage |
| goaded | urged on to action |
| inevitability | unavoidability |
| nebulous | vague; indistinct |
| penitent | one who repents |
| rotgut | cheap liquor |
| serf | member of the lowest feudal class, bound to the soil and subject to the will of a lord |
| abasement | humiliation; degradation |
| belligerently | aggressively; in a warlike manner |
| compelled | moved; forced |
| disconsolate | depressed; inconsolable |
| servile | slavish |
| speculatively | wonderingly |
