| A | B |
|---|
| countenance | facial expression |
| eminently | to a high degree |
| austere | severe or strict in manner |
| undemonstrative | tending to show feelings |
| aptness | talent |
| emulously | ambitious or aspiring |
| musing | thinking |
| pedantically | scholastic or by the book |
| sullenness | sulky or gloomy |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust |
| repose | to place (as a confidence or trust) in someone or something |
| iniquity | a grossly immoral act or sin |
| contrived | to form or create in an artistic or ingenious manner |
| pedant | one who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules |
| accosted | to approach and speak boldly or agressively as with demand or request |
| trifling | to play or toy with something |
| conflagration | large fire |
| odious | exciting or deserving hatred or repugnance |
| gaunt | overly thin, or lacking in visitors |
| ruminated | to go over something in your head over and over again |
| elicit | to bring out |
| sedulously | diligent in pursuit, serious about getting it done |
| recluse | one who prefers to be alone |
| stringent | strict or tight |
| inscrutable | not understood or not investigated |
| abject | sunk or in a low state |
