| A | B |
|---|
| acute | sharply perceptive or keenly aware |
| audacity | bold courage; daring |
| conceived | to form; to imagine |
| crevice | small opening or crack |
| deathwatches | beetles whose heads make a tapping sound |
| derision | mockery; ridicule |
| dissimulation | hiding of one's true feelings |
| dissemble | to pretend |
| foresight | care or provision for the future |
| gesticulation | gestures that accompany speaking |
| hypocritical | insincere |
| reposed | to rest |
| sagacity | intelligence and good judgement |
| scantlings | small crosspieces of wood |
| stifle | to suffocate |
| stimulate | to make active |
| suavity | smooth agreeability; elegantly |
| vexed | to annoy; to trouble |
