| A | B |
|---|
| encroach | intrude upon |
| obliterate | to remove completely |
| bemuse | puzzle, confuse, or bewilder |
| perpetuity | a thing that lasts for.ev.er |
| archaic | very old or old-fashioned |
| jalousies | a blind or shutter made of a row of angled slats |
| cabal | a secret political clique or faction |
| acrid | having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant taste or smell |
| pall | figurative: something regarded as enveloping a situation with an air of gloom, heaviness, or fear (noun: a cloth spread over a coffin) |
| inextricable | impossible to escape or untangle from |
| to cuckold | to make an object of ridicule |
| macabre | disturbing and horrifying because of its connection to death or injury |
| sibilant | characterized by a hissing sound |
| bier | a movable frame on which a coffin is placed |
| re | once more - afresh, anew |
| impervious | unable to be affected by |
| noblesse oblige | with nobility comes responsibility |
| tableau | a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history |
| pauper | a very poor person |
| vanquish | defeat thoroughly |
