| A | B |
| yawl | a 2-masted sailboat rigged fore and aft; with a short mizzenmast |
| diaphanous | transparent |
| sepulchre | tomb |
| setentiously | pointedly |
| crania | skulls |
| alienist | psychiatrist |
| lugubrious | implying a ridiculously excessive grief |
| declivity | downward slope |
| recrudenscence | a renewal or breakout out afresh |
| rapacious | greedy |
| insidious | more dangerous than seems evident |
| moribund | dying |
| splay | brawled and flat |
| strike | breakup or abandon by taking out tents, etc |
| precipitately | hastily |
| pestilential | harmful |
| pestiforus | annoying; evil |
| incontinently | immediately |
| recondite | obscure |
| perdition | complete and irreparable loss |
| islet | small island |
| serried | placed close together |
| wraith | ghost |
| peroration | the concluding part of a speech |
| harlequin | traditional comic character in a pantamine who wears a mask, and gay-spangled tights of many colors |
| motley | garmets of various colors |
| absconded | to depart secretly; hastily |
| factitious | artificial; forced |
| tenebrous | dark; gloomy |
| circuitous | roundabout |
| soughing | low soft rustling |