| A | B |
|---|
| afflicted | suffering |
| aperture | an opening |
| azure | sky blue |
| catacombs | underground burial chambers |
| clossal | huge; enormous |
| crypt | a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) |
| endeavor | to attempt earnestly |
| explicit | precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable |
| grope | feel about uncertainly or blindly |
| ignoramous | an ignorant person; a dunce |
| mpunity | freedom from punishment or harm |
| insufferable | intolerable; unbearable |
| niche | an enclosure that is set back or indented |
| obstinate | persist stubbornly |
| precluded | prevented; made impossible in advance |
| promiscuously | in an indiscriminate manner |
| rapier | long, slender sword |
| subside | wear off or die down |
| surmounted | overcame, to put above or overcome |
| wont | an established custom |
