| A | B |
| nomadic | roaming |
| brumal | wintry |
| ferine | wild, savage |
| veranda | open porch |
| artesian | water |
| demesne | domain; land attached to a manor |
| insular | ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience |
| besetting | a problem that is constantly attacking |
| conveyance | the action or process of transporting someone or something from one place to another |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| waxed | layer upon layer (His anger layered) |
| cayuses | wild horse |
| soliloquized | speak your thoughts out loud |
| docilely | tame |
| conciliated | stop (someone) from being angry or discontented; placate; pacify |
| weazened | lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness |
| swarthy | dark skinned |