| A | B |
|---|
| Domesticate | to tame or bring under control |
| Surly | bad-tempered or churlish |
| Aftermath | consequences or result |
| Lexicon | dictionary or vocabulary |
| Crumpet | a round, soft, unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or toasted (British) |
| Blunder | to stumble or lurch noisily into a space |
| Trundle | to roll along, as in a cart |
| Omphalos | the navel or central point |
| Grackle | a crowlike bird |
| Plumage | feathers |
| Concur | to agree |
| Adder | snake |
| Hunker | to hunch or squat down |
| revel | to indulge in boisterous festivities |
| midriff | the middle part of the body between the chest and the waist |
| caucus | group, gathering, or assembly |
| umber | a dark, dusky brown or dark reddish brown color |
| ocher | a pale, orangish, or reddish yellow color |
| discharge | to set free or release |
| ravenous | starving |
| steep | to immerse in or saturate (like a teabag) |
| supple | flexible, yielding |
| concussion | shock caused by the impact of a collision, blow, etc. |
| climactic | having heightened intensity |
| percussive | noisily pounding |
| crescendo | a build-up or upsurge in intensity |
| diminuendo | a diminishing or decrease in volume or intensity |
| Onomatopoetic | using words that make or suggest the sound described |
| Wordplay | clever expression or manipulation of language |
| Allusion | a reference to, or representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words or syllables |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words or sentences |
| Personification | giving human characteristics to something inanimate |
| Metaphor | figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms |
| Enjambment | the running together of two lines of poetry (opposed to end-stopped) |
| Aural | auditory; related to hearing |
| Octave | an eight-line stanza |
| Elevated diction | word choice that is heightened in its formality |
| Caesura | a pause or break in a line or prose or poetry (often marked by an em dash “–“) |
