| A | B |
|---|
| terra firma | Latin for "solid earth" |
| glib | quick-witted; smooth-tongued |
| tirade | a long speech in which the speaker fusses or complains |
| onus | burden |
| aesthetic | artsy; related to beauty or excellence; standard for judging something’s goodness |
| seascape | a painting or drawing of the sea and features in it or nearby; compare to landscape |
| typesetting | the art of placing tiny metal letters and numbers in place to be covered with ink and pressed against paper to make a printed page |
| enumerate | to count out one by one |
| superimpose | to lay something on top of something else |
| eclectic | having components from a wide variety of sources |
| remnant | leftover piece |
| steerage | the lowest level of a passenger ship, where those buying the cheapest tickets stay |
| abstract | —not like anything physical; not representing a physical object; related to thought or imagination as opposed to nature. |
| concrete | —looking like something physical; representing a physical object; related to nature, as opposed to thought or imagination. |
| transition | a graceful easing from one thing to another |
| subjective | based on feelings and not fact |
| stationery | fine quality paper for writing letters and notes |
| parenthetical | . that which is said off to the side; not the main idea but one that is worth sneaking in |
| definitive | the qualities that make something what it is; the most nearly complete and accurate |
| facade | false face; front; shallow covering of the real thing |
| stationary | staying in one place |
