| A | B |
|---|
| After years of _____ the parolee had trouble adjusting to life outside of prison | incarceration |
| The biologist is studying _____ creatures on the banks of the Mississippi | riparian |
| Cargo crossing the ocean by ship may spend several weeks in _____ | transit |
| Because he was sad the poet wrote many _____ poems | tristful |
| The police did not believe that the witness was telling the truth until they were able to _____ his story with other evidence | verify |
| exhume | to dig up out of the ground |
| comprehend | to understand or to grasp intellectually |
| colloquial | conversational |
| audacity | boldness |
| egress | a means of going out or the act of going out |
| passion | powerful emotion or suffering |
| descend | to move downward |
| perfidious | treacherous or tricky |
| humus | soil |
| pontoon | a flat-bottomed boat or structure to support a floating bridge |
| transient | not permanent |
| verisimilitude | the quality of appearing to be true or real |
| flume | an open channel or chute filled with flowing water |
| inhumation | burial |
| impassive | incapable of emotion or physical sensation or expressionless |
