| A | B |
| Contemptuously | scornful; insolent |
| Resignedly | giving up; accepting the future |
| Sophisticated | cultured; worldly |
| Premonition | previous warning; information; or feeling |
| Unceasingly | continual |
| Elite | a select body; the best |
| Apprehensive | afraid; suspicious |
| Bootlegging | selling alcohol where not legally available |
| Conviction | strong belief |
| Vital | essential; necessary for life |
| Eluded | escaped; avoided |
| Gorged | swallow with greediness |
| Imploringly | beseechingly |
| Groggy | not fully awake |
| Inhalation | to breathe into the lungs |
| Sullenly | gloomily |
| Reluctantly | unwillingly; struggling against |
| Indignant | disgusted; anger with contempt |
| Exploits | heroic acts; adventures |
| Ruefully | regretfully; sorrowfully |
| Leery | wary; suspicious |
| Resemblance | likeness; similarity |
| Aimlessly | without direction; without purpose |
| Aghast | amazed; stupefied |
| Mimicking | imitating; ridiculing |
| Recurring | returning; repeatedly |
| Abruptly | suddenly |
| Debating | deciding |
| Bewilderedly | confusedly |
| Veered | swerved; turned aside from a course or direction |
| Desperate | driven to take any risk |
| Deny | to declare untrue; contradict |
| Grasped | understood |
| Stupor | senses are deadened |
| Acquitted | discharged; completed; set free from a legal charge |
| Flinching | betraying fear; pain or surprise with an involuntary gesture |
| Pity | compassion for suffering |
| Delirious | confusion |