| A | B |
|---|
| abatement | reduction or termination |
| austerity | sternness or severity of manner or attitude |
| benevolence | desire to do good to others |
| calamitous | catastrophic; disastrous |
| craven | cowardly |
| desperado | a desperate or reckless person, especially a criminal |
| erstwhile | former |
| cantle | the upward projecting rear part of the saddle |
| exhort | strongly encourage or urge someone to do something |
| invective | insulting, abusive, or highly critical language |
| lignite | soft brownish coal showing traces of plant structure |
| meershaum | a soft, white, claylike material, usually used for smoking pipes |
| preen | to devote effort to making oneself look attractive and then admire one's appearance |
| prescient | having or showing knowledge of events before they take place |
| salient | important or noticable |
| smote | having striked sharply or heavily with hand |
| sough | make a moaning, whistling, or rushing sound |
| supine | lying face-upward |
| supplication | the action of asking or begging for something earnestly or humbly |
| unrakish | unstylish |
