| A | B |
|---|
| querying | questioning |
| sober | marked by seriousness |
| hampering | impeding, hindering holding back |
| wiley | crafty cunning |
| loped | a run with bounding steps |
| leverage | mechanical advantage or power gained by using a lever |
| pursed | contracted into folds or wrinkles, puckered |
| raved | talked wildy and excitedly |
| limbered | loosened, made flexible, unstiffened |
| droning | making a dull contunued monotonous sound, humming or buzzing |
| resistance | the opposition by one thing, force to another |
| whiled | caused time to pass in some easy or pleasant manner |
| nonchalantly | in a coolly unconcerned, indifferent manner |
| belligerent | warlike, aggressive |
| eerie | inspiring fear, weird, strange |
