| A | B |
| pathos | when experience, literature, music, speech or expression evokes a feeling of pity or compassion |
| physiology | science of functions and activities of living organisms and their parts |
| poignant | moves our emotions |
| prodigious | wonderful; marvelous |
| regime | ruling or prevailing system |
| resilient | spring back; rebound |
| sultan | ruler of a Muslim country |
| tempestuous | tumultuous; turbulent |
| unprecedented | without previous instance |
| veritable | real or genuine |
| catalyst | a person or thing that causes an event or change |
| dogma | system of principles, beliefs |
| embodiment | a given concrete form |
| enigma | puzzling or inexplicable occurence or situation |
| emissary | representative sent on a mission or errand |
| flamboyant | strikingly bold or brilliant |
| heinous | hateful; totally reprehensible |
| heresy | opinion or doctrin opposing the accepted doctrine |
| imperative | expressing a command or plea |
| legacy | anything handed down from the past |