| A | B |
|---|
| adapt | to adjust or change to suit conditions |
| attest | to bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine |
| dovetail | to fit together exactly; to connect so as to form a whole; a carpentry figure resembling a dove's tail |
| enormity | the quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity |
| falter | to hesitate, stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitatingly; to lose drive, weaken, decline |
| foreboding | a waring or feeling that something bad will happen; marked by fear, ominous |
| forlorn | totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely; wretched or pitiful; almost hopeless |
| haughty | chilling proud and scornful |
| impediment | a physical defect; a hindrance, obstacle |
| imperative | necessary, urgent; a form of a verb expressing a command; that which is necessary or required |
| loiter | to linger in an aimless way, hang around, dawdle |
| malinger | to pretend illness to avoid duty or work, lie down on the job |
| pithy | short but full of meaning |
| plunder | to rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; property stolen by force |
| simper | to smile or speak in a silly, forced way; a silly, forced smile |
| steadfast | firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing |
| vaunted | much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way |
| villify | to abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously |
| waif | a person (usually a child) without a home or friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stray bit |
| wry | twisted, turned to one side; cleverly or grimly humorous |
