| A | B |
|---|
| aghast | terrified; struck with amazement |
| recoiled | draw back, as with fear or pain or from impact |
| rapt | deeply moved: wholly absorbed as in thought |
| indulgently | permissive, tolerant, or humoring somebody’s wishes |
| notorious | having an exceedingly bad reputation |
| pompous | puffed up with vanity |
| veritable | not counterfeit or copied |
| affront | a deliberately offensive act |
| pillory | expose to ridicule or public scorn |
| damask | a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it |
| cadence | a recurrent rhythmical series |
| afflicted | mentally or physically unfit |
| hypocrite | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold |
| dubiously | in a doubtful manner |
| auspicious | marked by lucky signs or good omens, and therefore by the promise of success or happiness |
| stocks | a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn |
| menacing | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
| demurely | affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way |
| sepulcher | a chamber that is used as a grave |
