| A | B |
|---|
| antiquity | extreme oldness |
| gall | irritate or vex |
| scrabble | scratch or feel searchingly |
| brood | think moodily or anxiously about something |
| persist | refuse to stop |
| haste | a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry |
| despair | a state in which all hope is lost or absent |
| abominable | exceptionally bad or displeasing |
| onslaught | a sudden and severe onset of trouble |
| clamor | loud and persistent outcry from many people |
| scorch | destroy completely by fire |
| tumult | a state of commotion and noise and confusion |
| dreadful | causing fear or terror |
| render | give or supply |
| appall | fill with apprehension or alarm |
| unimpeachable | beyond doubt or reproach |
| peril | a source of danger |
| stark | providing no shelter or sustenance |
| vengeance | harming someone in retaliation for something they have done |
| dismay | fear resulting from the awareness of danger |
| uncanny | suggesting the operation of supernatural influences |
| lament | express grief verbally |
| wearisome | so lacking in interest as to case mental fatigue |
| eerie | suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious |
| blunder | make one's way clumsily or blindly |
| loathsome | highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust |
| snare | a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose |
| astonishment | he feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising |
| froth | exude or expel foam |
| linger | remain present although waning or gradually dying |
