| A | B |
|---|
| sycophant | a person who tries to gain favor by flattering people |
| chasm | a deep cleft, abyss |
| fuliginous | full of smoke, sooty |
| thanes | landowners, noblemen |
| hoarfrost | white frost, frozen dew on the ground |
| dirge | a funeral hymn, a song or poem of grief |
| dogmatism | the arrogant assertion of an opinion without proof or evidence |
| degenerate | the passing from a good state to a progressively worse state |
| putrefaction | decomposition of organic matter |
| inviolable | not able to be ruined; intact |
| enmity | hostility, antagonism |
| anarchistic | lawless, |
| pungent | sharp sensation |
| nihilism | a philosophy that denies the existence of knowledge or truth; a belief in nothingness, |
| pessimism | the belief that the existing world is the worst possible |
| gewgaw | a pretty or showy thing of little value |
| mead | an alcoholic drink |
| ominous | evil, threatening, sinister |
| obscure | dark, dim, not easily understood |
| recompense | to repay, reward |
| apocalyptic | world-ending |
| mere | marsh, swamp |
| victualers | providers of food |
| petulant | irritable |
| intimation | hint |
| undulant | waving |
| debauched | corrupted |
| ignoramus | an ignorant person |
| supplicant | one who petitions, entreats, or implores |
| intercession | the act of mediating |
| monistic | a philosophy that states that reality is an organic whole without any separate parts; |
| immanence | the belief that God is present throughout the universe |
| infinitude | infinity, the quality of being limitless |
| irascible | easily provoked to anger |
| existents | having existence, in the present, immediate |
| credulity | belief; without doubt |
| sine qua non | a Latin phrase meaning “the essential part” |
| nonce-rule | a rule made for one particular occasion |
| fontanel | the soft spot on a baby’s head |
| dictum | a formal pronouncement |
| futility | uselessness |
| swinish | like pigs, gross, hoggish, brutal |
| bumptious | conceited |
| brume | mist, fog |
| portent | omen or warning |
| torus | nearly a circle |
| byrnie | a coat of chain mail used in the Middle Ages |
| chilblains | sores caused by the cold |
| brachiating | having arms |
| soughing | a murmuring sighing sound |
| transvaluation | evaluation by a new principle which rejects conventional standards |
| transmogrified | transformed or changed completely |
| impute | to attribute to another, usually something evil or criminal |
| hart | a deer |
| obsequious | excessively willing to serve, overly submissive |
| stalactite | a icicle-shaped cone of lime attached to a cave roof |
| inchoate | rudimentary |
| concrescence | the act of growing or increasing |
| ossified | converted to bone |
| nether | below, under; in a lower place |
| scree | a stone; the accumulation of pebbles at the base of a slope |
| omnipotence | unlimited power |
| lineage | ancestry |
| stalagmite | a conical buildup on the floor of a cave |
| temporal | relating to or limited by time; transitory; secular |
| juxtaposed | placed side by side |
| inexorably | not to be persuaded, relentless, adamant |
| epitomized | to serve as the ideal, the perfect example of |
| advocate | one who pleads the case of another |
| tedium | the state of being boring, monotonous |
