| A | B |
|---|
| antagonize | to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy |
| antiphonal | sung |
| assent | to agree or concur; subscribe to |
| bastion | a fortified place. |
| belligerent | of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose |
| clamber | to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty. |
| contrite | filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement; penitent |
| declivity | downward slope |
| dubious | doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt |
| fervor | great warmth and earnestness of feeling |
| foliage | the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches in painting, architectural ornament |
| frenzy | extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement. |
| furtive | sly; shifty |
| hiatus | a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, |
| mirage | something illusory, without substance or reality |
| mortify | to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect. |
| opaque | not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through. |
| plaint | malliable |
| scar | blemish also a great hill - Like the plane left on the island |
| tacitly | understood without being expressed |
| covert | undervcover, not easily seen |
| corpulent | overweight, pudgy - think of Piggy, Santa, Garfield |
| diffident | lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy. |
| eclipsed | any obscuration of light. |
| embossed | to cause to bulge out; make protuberant, to raise, to represent |
| festoon | a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points |
| impervious | not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable |
| interminable | unending, having no limits |
| interpose | the place in between, the obstacle |
| jetty | a pier or structure of stones, piles, or the like, projecting into the sea or other body of water to protect a harbor, deflect the current, etc. |
| leviathan | huge, mammoth |
| myopia | narrow mindness lack of foresight |
| officious | objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome |
| pallid | pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: |
| strident | having a shrill, irritating quality or character |
| talisman | anything whose presence exercises a remarkable or powerful influence on human feelings or actions |
| torrid | oppressively hot, parching, or burning, as climate, weather, or air. |
| ululate | to howl, as a dog or a wolf; hoot, as an owl |
| vicissitudes | a change or variation occurring in the course of something. |
| incantation | the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power - like the three witches from Macbeth |
