| A | B |
|---|
| portentous | ominously significant; momentous |
| visage | the face; appearance |
| jocund | cheerful; merry |
| filial | relating to a son or daughter |
| importune | demand with urgency; beg |
| censure | strong disapproval |
| prodigal | wastefully extravagant |
| pernicious | causing harm; ruinous; fatal |
| wanton | done maliciously; reckless |
| entreaty | earnest request |
| brevity | shortness of time; briefness |
| carrion | dead and rotten flesh |
| paragon | model of excellence; ideal |
| quintessence | perfect embodiment of something |
| indict | charge with an offense or crime |
| synod | assembly of church delegates |
| paradox | self-contradictory;absurd statement |
| dowry | goods a wife brings to marriage |
| calumny | false, malicious statement;slander |
| epitaph | writing or inscription praising dead |
| choler | anger; wrath |
| audit | official examination of accounts |
| tithe | 1/10 of income-offering to church |
| prating | talk excessively; babble |
| glean | gather slowly, little by little |
| scourge | whip or lash; person who punishes |
| convocation | group of people; assembly |
| garrison | body of troops in fortified place |
| conjecture | guess; speculation |
| spendthrift | wastefully extravagant person |
| pleurisy | disease characterized by dry cough |
| peruse | to read carefully |
| unction | act of annointing; ointment/salve |
| circumvent | to go around or bypass |
| profane | irreverence to God; unholy;vulgar |
| obsequies | funeral rites; ceremonies |
| knavery | untrustworthy, dishonest dealing |
| perdition | damnation; loss of the soul |
