| A | B |
|---|
| adversary | someone who offers opposition |
| aplomb | great coolness and composure under strain |
| apprehensive | in fear or dread of possible evil or harm |
| aptitude | inherent ability |
| attentive | taking heed |
| banish | expel, as if by official decree |
| barricade | a barrier to impede the advance of an enemy |
| bluff | a high steep bank |
| brackish | slightly salty |
| brandish | move or swing back and forth |
| circumference | the length of the closed curve of a circle |
| commotion | a disorderly outburst or tumult |
| concoction | the act of creating something by compounding or mixing |
| conspicuous | obvious to the eye or mind |
| contortion | a tortuous and twisted shape or position |
| counter | a calculator recording the number of times something happens |
| cunning | showing inventiveness and skill |
| debris | the remains of something that has been destroyed |
| defiance | a hostile challenge |
| deft | skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands |
| complex sentence | a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause |
| compound sentence | a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses |
| conjunction | a function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases |
| coordinating conjunction | a conjunction (like `and' or `or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents |
| declarative | a mood that represents the act or state as an objective fact |
| dependent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb |
| direct object | the object that receives the direct action of the verb |
| imperative | a grammatical mood that expresses a command or exhortation |
| independent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence |
| indirect object | the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb |
| interrogative | a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply |
| object | (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon |
| paragraph | one of several distinct subdivisions of a text |
| predicate | the constituent of a sentence containing the verb |
| run-on sentence | an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction |
| simple sentence | a sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses |
| subject | one of the two main constituents of a sentence |
| subordinating conjunction | a conjunction that introduces a dependent clause |
| topic sentence | a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph |
