| A | B |
|---|
| peregrine | foreign; alien. Roving; wandering. |
| brethren | fellow Christians or people belonging to a particular group |
| virtue | a good or useful quality |
| litmus | a dye obtained from certain lichens that is red under acid conditions and blue under alkaline conditions |
| malice | the intention to do evil |
| fission | the action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts |
| obscure | not clearly expressed or easily understood |
| dogma | a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true |
| brimstone | sulfur |
| phosphorescent | light emitted by a substance without combustion or perceptible heat |
| paramecium | a single-celled freshwater animal that has a characteristic slipperlike shape and is covered with cili |
| flagella | a slender threadlike structure, esp. a microscopic whiplike appendage that enables many protozoa, bacteria, spermatozoa, etc., to swim. |
| rime | frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapor in cloud or fog |
| chancels | the part of a church near the altar, reserved for the clergy and choir, and typically separated from the nave by steps or a screen. |
| blasé | unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before |
