| A | B |
| agnostic | a skeptic; without faith |
| complicity | involvement in wrongdoing; accomplice |
| derelict | something abandoned or neglected |
| diatribe | a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| effigy | a crude image of a despised person |
| indictment | a formal accusation of wrongdoing |
| intermittent | stopping and beginning again; sporadic |
| motif | a principal idea or theme for something |
| neophyte | a beginner or a novice; new to something |
| surveillance | to keep a careful watch over someone |
| sylvan | pertaining to forests and woods |
| travesty | a terribly inferior imitation; made to ridicule |