| A | B |
|---|
| Alight/light (v.) | to land or perch |
| Nugget | lump or chunk |
| Burred | having a rough or prickly covering |
| Closure | resolution or conclusion |
| Hummock | small mound or hill |
| Mire | swamp, sludge or marsh |
| Succulent | juicy or moist |
| Marrow | the inmost or essential part; a soft, fatty vascular tissue in the interior cavities of bones that is a major site of blood cell production |
| Cord | a unit of volume for measuring cut wood, equal to 128 cubic feet |
| Clematis | a climbing flowering plant |
| Ornate | elaborate and complex |
| Prosaic | everyday; ordinary |
| Arch (adj.) | arrogant or haughty |
| Ambivalence | uncertainty or fluctuation in making a choice |
| Indeterminate | undefined, vague |
| Alienation | a sense of disconnection or estrangement |
| Sullen | surly, brooding, gloomy |
| Lilting | musically light and rhythmic |
| Transcendence | a state surpassing ordinary perception or understanding |
| Domesticate | to tame or bring under control |
| Futility | pointlessness or uselessness |
| Degradation | the wearing down of the land by the erosive action of water, wind or ice |
| Artifact | relic or manufactured item |
| Apprehension | anxiety or dread |
| Melancholy | despondent or depressed |
| Fecundity | fruitfulness, richness, or lushness |
| Evocative | reminiscent or suggestive |
| Ironic | saying one thing but suggesting or meaning the opposite |
| Abstraction | vagueness, pensiveness, lack of specificity |
| Elevated diction | language that seems unusually poetic, formal, artificial, grandiose, etc. |
| Apostrophe | addressing someone or something that cannot respond |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words |
| Enjambment | the running together of lines or poetry for stylistic effect (contrasted with end-stopped) |
| Appositive | (grammar) a noun or noun phrase placed after another to modify or clarify its meaning |
| Oxymoron | a self-contradictory expression, such as “deafening silence” |
| Neologism | a new word, meaning, usage or phrase |
| Internal rhyme | rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse: “Whiles all the night through fog-smoke white” |
