| A | B | 
| miser | a mean person; especially one who lives poorly to store away money | 
| hoist | lift; raise | 
| bland | tasteless; gentle, smooth and soothing; not irritating | 
| victor | one who defeats an enemy or opponent; winner | 
| devour | eat up greedily or hungrily; swallow up or destroy by eating; enjoy eagerly | 
| rash | being too quick in speaking; or in actions or in making decisions without careful thought | 
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest; a temporary calm before a storm | 
| daily | occurring every day | 
| crude | being in a natural state; unchanges by heat, cooking  or refining; Not having or showing good manners; vulgar; planned or done in a rough, unskilled way | 
| barb | a sharp point that sticks out and backwards; witty remark which is intended to hurt one's feelings | 
| submerge | to put or go underwater | 
| sly | skillful at clever tricks; tending to secrecy or concealment | 
| consume | to eat or drink up; to take up the interest of; use up; spend; to destroy by fire | 
| ripple | to be covered with small waves; to move with a wavy motion | 
| mellow | made gentle by age; being clear full and pure; tender and sweet because of ripeness | 
| conquest | something you gain by force; something conquered | 
| hoard | hidden supply or fund; stored up | 
| witty | amusing | 
| clatter | rattling sound; commotion; noisy chatter | 
| waver | to go back and forth between choices; sway to and fro; move unsteadily | 
| aloft | in the air | 
| stealthy | slow, deliberate and secret in action; furtive | 
| impulse | force that starts a body in motion; stirring up of the mind; acting without thinking | 
| deluge | tremendous amount of rain; wall of water coming down | 
| rustle | crisp fall sound as in leaves being blown about by the wind |