| A | B |
|---|
| taciturn | preferring not to talk; uncommunicative; silent |
| rheumatic | suffering from a disease of the joints; able to move only with great pain |
| vestibule | small entrance hall or room |
| undulating | moving in waves |
| eccentricities | examples of slightly odd or unconventional behavior |
| anomalies | abnormalities |
| ascetic | one who lives with strict self-discipline and without the usual pleasures and comforts |
| restrictive clause | necessary to the meaning of the sentence |
| nonrestrictive clause | adds details not necessary to the meaning of the sentence and is set off by commas |
| characters | people or beings who take part in the action of a story |
| static characters | do not change during the course of a story |
| dynamic characters | change and usually learn something as a result of the events of the story |
| a- and an- | without or not |
