| A | B |
|---|
| obdurate | not easily moved; stubborn |
| celerity | swiftness |
| resiliency | ability to bounce back or spring back into shape |
| lugubriously | sadly, mournfully, often in an exaggerated manner |
| salient | noticeable; prominent |
| callowness | youth; immaturity; inexperienced |
| slovenly | careless; untidy; slipshod |
| repugnance | extreme dislike or distaste |
| superfluous | being more than is needed; excessive |
| jaded | worn out; dulled |
| orthodox | usual; established |
| copious | numerous |
| ministration | act of giving care, help, or service |
| transient | staying only for a short time |
| vaunt | boast or brag |
| virility | state of having strength or power |
| babel | confusion of voices, languages, or sounds |
| belie | disguise; misrepresent |
| lope | long, easy stride |
| quarry | anything being hunted or pursued |
| splay | turning outward; spreading |
| usurp | take over; assume power by force or without right |
| brood | worry |
| demesne | region; domain |
| sated | satisfied |
| insular | detached; isolated |
| besetting | constantly harassing |
| progeny | descendant; offspring |
| conveyance | carrying device |
| lacerated | cut; wounded |
| wax | increase in strength; grow larger |
| soliloquize | talk to oneself |
| latent | hidden |
| morose | gloomy; sullen |
| primordial | existing from the beginning of time; primitive |
| ignominiously | disgracefully; shamefully |
| arduous | strenuous; hard |
| cadence | rhythmic flow of sound |
| precipitate | sudden; impetuous; rash |
| loath | hesitant; reluctant |
| draggled | wet and dirty |
| skulking | lurking about in a sinister way |
| dubiously | doubtfully; suspiciously |
| eddy | little whirlpool |
| resolutely | with determination or fixed purpose |
| preeminently | excelling above others |
| prostrate | lying down |
| travail | intense pain |
| paddock | enclosed field |
