| A | B |
|---|
| floundered | moved clumsily along |
| palatial | like a palace |
| chateau | large country home in France |
| baronial | suitable for a baron |
| affable | polite and friendly |
| cosmopolite | sophisticated world traveler |
| ardent | full of warm feeling |
| quarry | intended prey or victim |
| condone | approve of morally |
| scruples | feelings of doubt based on conscience |
| barbarous | uncivilized |
| solicitously | anxiously concerned about another's health or well-being |
| ennui | feelings of boredom |
| deplorable | deeply regrettable |
| futile | useless |
| zealous | full of enthusiasm and persistent effort |
| repast | a spledid feast |
| impunity | freedom from punishment |
| retribution | a deserved punishment |
| wont | habit or custom |
| connoisseurship | expert understanding of a subject |
| niter | chemical related to potassium nitrate |
| catacombs | underground tombs with winding passages |
| gait | manner of walking |
| gesticulations | expressive movements of hands or arms |
| crypt | underground room for burial |
| ignormaus | fool or ignorant person |
| masonry | stonework |
| inimitable | impossible to imitate |
| motley | multi-colored clown costume |
| unwieldy | awkward because of its size, shape, or weight |
| protuberance | a bulging part |
| corpulent | having a bulky body; fat |
| prodigious | amazing, enormous |
| dexterity | skill in handling things |
| fete | celebration |
| endeavored | attempted, tried |
| novel | new and different |
| implored | begged earnestly |
| tyrant | ruler who uses power harshly |
| audacity | boldness, daring |
| protracted | prolonged in duration |
| pacified | calmed, made quiet |
| flax | straw-like fiber |
| tumult | state of confusion, uproar |
| inciting | urging on to action |
| flambeau | flaming torch |
| maniacal | violently insane |
| virulence | of violent strenth, usually of posion or disease |
| vengeance | retaliation for harm done |
| fetid | smelling terrible |
| infatuated | intensely devoted to; unreasonably in love |
| degraded | shameful, disgraceful |
| transluscent | allowing light to pass through but not transparent |
| reprehensible | deserving criticism or punishment |
| banished | dismissed from |
| clamored | loudly protested |
| duly | properly; in a due manner of time or degree |
| unduly | in an undue manner or improper degree |
| moor | boggy area of wasteland usually peaty and full of grasses, sedges |
| engulfed | taken in as if by flowing over and enclosing |
| imminent | ready to take place; about to happen |
| palate | sense of taste |
| droll | amusing in an odd way |
| claret | dry red wine |
| restrained | quality of holding back, kept under control |
| jovial | full of cheerful good humor |
| drawling | speaking lazily, with drawn-out vowels |
| shrewdness | clever in a manipulative, evil way |
| pendulous | hanging downward so as to swing freely |
| prim | stiffly formal and precise in manner or appearance |
| bouquet | the perfume of wine |
| pompous | full of ostentatious dignity and self-importance |
| contemptuous | feeling of despising something |
| arrogance | attitude of exaggerated superiority and pride |
| apprehnsion | feeling of fear about possible danger or difficulty |
| vexation | anger and annoyance |
| pauper | a poor person; one who depends on charity |
| adulation | excessive praise or flattery |
| ruinous | disastrous; bringing ruin or downfall |
| gamut | the entire range or series of something |
| privation | lack of basic necessities or comforts of life |
| exorbitant | excessively high; exceeding the bounds of reason |
| askew | crooked, to one side |
| invalid | too ill to lead a normal life; confined to home |
| careened | rushed carelessly |
| imminent | about to occur |
| iridescent | shining with shifting rainbow colors |
| infallibility | inability to make errors; exemption from mistakes |
| doggedness | persistence; stubbornness, unwillingness to give up |
| exotic | exitingly strange and different |
| reiterated | stated again; repeated |
| precariously | insecurely set; in a dangerously tippy way |
