| A | B |
|---|
| cryptic | (adj) secret |
| provenance | (n) the history of ownership of a valued object or work of art or literature |
| niggard | (n) stingy person |
| carnivorous | (adj) feeding on animals |
| misbegotten | (adj) unlawfully conceived |
| icon | (n) 1. image 2. symbol |
| repercussions | (n) something given or exerted in return |
| canister | (n) container for holding a specified object |
| vestibule | (n) any of various bodily cavities |
| apathetic | (adj) having or showing little or no feeling or emotion |
| admonition | (n) gentile or friendly criticism |
| perverse | (adj) turned away from what is right or good; corrupt |
| euphoria | (n) a feeling of well-being |
| chignon | (n) a knot of hair that is worn at the back of the head and especially at the nape of the neck |
| reprehensible | (adj) worthy of or deserving criticism |
| dram | (n) a small portion of something to drink |
| bovine | (adj) having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows |
| placate | (v) to soothe |
| propitiatory | (adj) intending to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of |
| brazier | (n) one that works in brass |
| winnow | (v) to remove by a current of air |
| cistern | (n) a large usually silver vessel formerly used at the dining table |
| cataclysm | (n) an event that brings great changes |
| wizened | (v) to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled |
| chastise | (v) to inflict punishment on |
| plumage | (n) the feathers of a bird |
| wanton | (adj) hard to control |
| pillory | (n) a means for exposing one to public scorn or ridicule |
| virulence | (n) extreme bitterness or malignity of temper |
| embody | (v) to deprive of spirituality |
| compensation | (n) the act of offsetting an error, defect, or undesired effectoffset an error, defect, or undesired effect |
| ardor | (n) an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| imminent | (adj) ready to take place |
| periphery | (n) the external boundary or surface of a body |
| ethereal | (adj) of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| ultramarine | (n) a blue pigment prepared by powdering lapis lazuli |
| chartreuse | (n) a variable color averaging a brilliant yellow green |
| amber | (n) a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin |
| parchment | (n) the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| lavender | (n) a pale purple |
| cerulean | (n) resembling the blue of the sky |
