| A | B |
|---|
| meticulously | showing extreme or excessive care in thinking about or dealing with small details |
| mar | to ruin the beauty or perfection of: spoil |
| admonished | to criticize or warn gently but seriously |
| raucous | loud and unpleasant to listen to; making a disturbingly harsh and loud noise |
| pensively | engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought |
| emaciated | abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food |
| reverberated | to continue in or as if in a series of echoes; to become filled with a sound |
| monotonous | dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest |
| maverick | an independent individual who does not go along with a group; an independent-minded person |
| formidable | inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable. |
| feigned | simulated or pretended; insincere |
| aloof | not friendly or outgoing; distant |
| haughtily | having or showing a proud and superior attitude |
| malevolently | having or showing a desire to cause harm to another person |
| reprimand | to criticize (a person) severely or formally; n. a severe or formal criticism |
| transposed | in a changed position or order |
| lynch | to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action |
| sharecropping | a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land |
