| A | B |
|---|
| emancipation | act of freeing slaves |
| carnival | festivity; merrymaking |
| corpus delicti | body of victim in a crime |
| cordiform | heart-shaped |
| facile | easy |
| captive | a hostage; a prisoner |
| digest | tothink over and absorb; to cut up and dissolve food |
| reject | to refuse to take or accept |
| mobile | able to move around |
| discord | out of harmony |
| animus | basic attitude or governing spirit--intention or disposition |
| countermand | to contradict an order |
| decapitate | to cut off the head |
| core | heart or center of something |
| projectile | an object designed to be hurled or shot forward |
| morbific | causing disease |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly |
| gusto | taste; liking; keen enjoyment |
| intermittent | occurring at intervals |
| dissension | a difference of opinion |
| aural | of or relating to the ear |
| discern | to perceive; detect |
| indigestion | an upset stomach |
| conspicuous | easy to see or perceive |
| somnambulist | person who walks in his sleep |
| sagacious | wise |
| insomniac | a person who cannot sleep |
| post-mortem | examination of a dead body |
| verbatim | word for word |
| intact | perfect condition; honesty |
| vivisection | animal experimentation |
| inquisitive | curious; inclined to ask questions |
| mortality | death |
| sentinel | a guard |
| survival | continuation of life or existence |
| factotum | an employee with a wide range of capabilities |
| assent | to express agreement; concur |
| facsimile | an exact copy or reproduction |
| sonorous | capable of producing sound |
| proviso | a condition or stipulation |
| loquacious | talkative |
| incarnate | in human form |
| advocate | to speak or write in support of something |
| somniferous | producing sleep |
| inaudible | cannot be heard |
| dictate | to speak or read aloud for someone else to write down; to command |
| pedigree | known line of descent |
| ocular | of the eye |
| ferric | containing iron |
| manual | made, done, worked or used by hand |
| auriculate | having ears |
| affluent | plentiful; wealthy; rich |
| vital | living, essential |
| prerequisite | someting that is necessary to bring about something else |
| verbiage | an excess of words; wordiness |
| corps | a body of people under common direction |
| subterfuge | any plan or action used to evade or escape something difficult or unpleasant; deception |
| bona fide | in good faith; without dishonesty or deceit |
| traverse | to cross |
| avocation | a hobby |
| herbivore | plant-eating |
| inanimate | not living |
| disfigure | to blemish, spoil, or deform |
