| A | B |
|---|
| turbulent | characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination |
| aloof | remote in manner |
| affront | treat, mention, or speak to rudely |
| affliction | a cause of great suffering and distress |
| consummation | the act of bringing to completion or fruition |
| insolence | an offensive disrespectful impudent act |
| bodkin | a dagger with a slender blade |
| awry | away from the correct or expected course |
| orison | reverent petition to a deity |
| commerce | social exchange, especially of opinions or attitudes |
| paradox | a statement that contradicts itself |
| inoculate | introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of |
| dowry | money brought by a woman to her husband at marriage |
| calumny | an abusive attack on a person's character or good name |
| beget | have children |
| temperance | the trait of avoiding excesses |
| termagant | a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman |
| judicious | marked by the exercise of common sense in practical matters |
| profane | grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred |
| journeyman | a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft |
| fawning | attempting to win favor by flattery |
| occult | hide from view |
| rivet | direct one's attention on something |
| clemency | leniency and compassion shown toward offenders |
| lament | express grief verbally |
| repose | the absence of mental stress or anxiety |
| withers | the highest part of the back at the base of an animal's neck |
| extant | still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost |
| boisterous | violently agitated and turbulent |
| fetter | a shackle for the ankles or feet |
| repentance | remorse for your past conduct |
| physic | a purging medicine |
| bulwark | a protective structure of stone or concrete |
| pander | yield to; give satisfaction to |
| chide | scold or reprimand severely or angrily |
| whet | sharpen by rubbing |
| gambol | play or run boisterously |
| unction | preparation applied externally as a remedy or for soothing |
| scourge | something causing misery or death |
| prate | speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly |
