| A | B |
| sneering | showing scorn or contempt by curling the lip or making jeering sounds |
| impassive | showing no feeling, emotion or interest |
| obstinate | stubborn |
| contempt | the act of despising or hating |
| trousseau | the personal outfit of a bride |
| intricate | complicated, difficult to follow |
| rationed | restricted or limited in amount |
| haughtily | proud or arrogantly |
| swastika | the emblem of Nazi Germany |
| sophisticated | conplex or refined |
| exasperated | frustrated |
| belligerently | in a war-like or hostile way |
| dismay | dread or apprehension |
| dubiously | doubtful |
| tension | mental strain or uneasy suspence |
| imperious | domineering or overbearing |
| intoned | recited or sung in a chanting voice |
| tentaively | hesitantly |
| sprawling | spread out, taking up lots of space |
| massive | very large, heavy and soild |
| awe | a feeling of mixed fear, respect and wonder |
| gnarled | being full of knots, twisted and rugged |
| ruefully | in a remorse or sorrowful manner |
| specter | a ghost or mythological or scary creature |
| deftly | quick and neat in action, skillful |
| wryly | a manner in which one twists, the feeling of displeasure and in distaste |
| truged | walking or marching steadily |
| hearse | a vehicle carrying a corpse to a church or cemetary |
| surge | to rise and fall actively, or to rise to a high value |
| condescending | superior mattitude |
| strode | past of a stride - walking with long, recular steps |
| misshapen | deformed |
| winced | to flinfch or shrink back as in pain |
| faltered | stumbled, moving or speaking unsteadily or hesitanting |
| donned | to put on or wear |
| vivid | fresh,lively,brilliant |
| latticed | framed by crossed wood or metel strips |
| wriggle | to squirm |
| segmant | a part of something |
| brusque | blunt, abrupt or gruff |
| prolong | to make longer |
| tantalize | to tease or tormaent, tempt someone with something that is out of their reach |
| taunt | tense, trim,tidy |
| consumed | devoured or destroyed |
| insolently | in a rude manner |
| caustic | corrosive, sharp |
| subsided | to stop, to become quiet |
| warily | in a cautious manner |
| devastating | reducing to ruin, shattering |
| integrity | honesty |
| deprivation | the act of depriving, loss |
| permeated | to pass through |
| compassion | sympathetic feeling |
| sabotage | the act of deliberately trying to interfere with property, work of an enemy action |