| A | B |
| amorphous | shapeless |
| benediction | blessing |
| cahoots | partnership; league |
| commensurate | proportionate |
| divot | loose piece of turf |
| fortuitously | happening by chance |
| grail | the object of an extended, difficult search |
| holocaust | great destruction of life |
| humidor | case in which cigars are kept fresh |
| orgastic | climactic; intensely exciting |
| pandered | gratified |
| pneumatic | inflated |
| proteges | persons trained, influenced, and helped along by others |
| redolent | aromatic |
| strata | level (of society) |
| transitory | brief; temporary |
| unscrupulously | in an unprincipled manner |
| vestibule | lobby |
| addenda | addition |
| adventitious | happening by chance; accidental |
| bulbous | bulbliked |
| circumstantial | detailed; inferred from direct evidence |
| pasquinade | lampoon; satire |
| raspingly | abrasively; irritatingly |
| resolves | resolutions |
| reverent | awed and respectful |
| superfluous | excessive; unnecessary |
| surmise | conjecture; idea based on little evidence |
| ulster | a long, loose overcoat |