| A | B |
| Doublet | a close fitting jacket (sometimes worn with a short skirt, and a common dress for men during the Renaissance) |
| Bandy | fighting or to throw or strike to and fro from side to side (a ball, in tennis, for example) |
| Truce | a suspension of hostilities for a period for time; cease-fire (peace) |
| Naught | nothing or worthless, evil |
| Vestal | of or pertaining to the Roman goddess Vesta (goddess of the hearth); |
| Fickle | not constant or loyal in affections; likely to change due to instability or irresolution |
| Villain | a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime |
| Cockatrice | a fabled serpent that could |
| Unseemly | inappropriate for time or place |
| Devise | to contrive, plan or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas |
| Valor | bravery, courage |
| Affliction | a distressed or painful state; misery |
| Dissemble | to give a false or misleading appearance to OR to conceal one's true motives |
| Doom | fate, destiny OR pain or death |
| Commend | to speak well or praise OR |
| Minion | a servile follower or subordinate |
| Tempest | a violent windstorm, usually accompanied by rain OR a violent disturbance |