| A | B |
| portent | a sign or forewarning |
| prodigious | enourmous, great in size |
| prodigy | exceptional talents |
| prostration | complety ovecome, weak |
| replicate | repeat,or copy |
| reputable | good reputation or status |
| revere | to honor, treat with respect |
| rhetoric | persuasion, effect of reading or writing |
| rout | gouge out, expel by force |
| servile | overly submissive, willingness to serve |
| soothsayer | person that can predict the future |
| spurn | to reject |
| sterile | in capable of reproducing/ having a child |
| taper | decrease in weakness or in width |
| indignation | anger/ result of somehting unjust |
| instigation | to urge or support/promote |
| kindle | to start a fire/to stir up |
| knotty | to complicated to solve or knotty |
| lament | express sorrow, or grief |
| legacy | gift by will, handed down by an ancestor |
| malice | desire to harm others |
| melancholy | depression of spirts, sadness |
| mettie | courage or spirit |
| mirth | gladness/laughter |
| muse | ponder, think about |
| mutinous | showing desire to resist control/disobedient |
| obscure | difficult to see, uncertain, not discoverable |
| ominous | threatening |