| A | B |
| brawn | muscular strength. |
| heed | to give careful attention to |
| irascible | easily provoked to anger; very irritable |
| parsimony | extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess |
| amity | friendship; peaceful harmony |
| persist | to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action |
| condescend | to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior |
| blithe | joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful |
| vilify | to speak ill of; defame; slander |
| violate | to break through or pass by force or without right |