| A | B |
|---|
| Virtuosi | great skill; especially in music1 |
| Rarefied | made thinner |
| Don Quioxte | idealistic knight |
| Seige | surround, cut-off supplies, wait out |
| Parasitic | takes advantage of the generosity of others |
| Culinary | cooking |
| Stentorian | loud |
| Elegant | refined in appearance or manners |
| Mania | intense enthusiasm |
| Shroud | burial covering |
| Benign | kind disposition |
| Aside | short remark made in the presence of others |
| Capuchin | order of monks |
| Gallant | courageous; valiant |
| Infested | to 9overrun in large numbers; to be harmful/obnocious |
| Hideous | repulsive especially in sight |
| Distraught | deeply agitated/anxious |
| Parapet | embankment protecting soldiers from enemy fire |
| Brandish | to wave or flourish menacingly |
| Wielded | to handle escecially capably |
| Glutton | one who eats or consumes immoderate anounts |
| Despise | dislike intensly |
| Incomparable | beyond comparison; unsurpasses |
| Stupefaction | to amaze, astonish |
| Exquisite | beautifully made or designed |
| Frivolity | innapropriately silly |
| Gilded | to cvover with or as if with a thin layer of gold |
| Martial | suggestive to war |
| Persist | to go on resolutely of stubbornly in spite of opposition |
| Grotesque | absurdelyin congruous; ugly/disfigured |
| Captivating | to preserve in arrelatively permanent form |
| Reveille | first military formation of the day |
| Adversary | opponent; enemy |
| Haunting | to visti often; frequent |
| Courtier | an attendent at the court of a sovereign |
| Rustic | simple; unsophisticated |
| Vunerable | susceptible to injury |
| Rancor | bitter, long lasting resentment |
| Deference | yielding to the opponent, wishes or judgement of another |
| Herione | female hero |
| Pate | meat paste |
| Tumolt | commotion of great crowd; uproar |
| Prevailed | to gain acendancy through strength or superiority |
| Arrogant | excessively self inportaint |
| Lunatic | acts foolishly |
| Boil | pus filled swelling of the skin |
| Ruff | large frilled collar |
| Impetuous | impulsive |
| Foils | sword with thin, flexible blade |
| Ponderously | massive, heavy |
| Incidentlly | of a minor or casual nature |
| Coquettish | flirtacious |
| Billowing | swell or surge |
| Preoccupied | attention is already engrossed |
| Spawned | give rise to |
| Punchinello | grotesque puppet |
| Majestically | performed with greatness/dignity |
| Obliging | as a service or a favor |
| Brash | hastily; unthinking |
| Buffoons | clowns |
| Patron | wealthy supporter of the arts |
| Sols | french coin |
| Swashbuckler | adventurer |
| Droves | crowds |
| Cadet | common soldier |
| Ode | lyric poem in praise of person/object |
| Doublet | waist-length jacket |
| Tart | small open pie |
| Bravado | boastful bravery |
| Affability | friendliness; kindness |
| Paunch | fat stomach |
| Bllade | poem with 3-eight line stanzas and a four-line refrain |
| Canquish | overcome; subdue |
| Impromptu | without preparation |
| Barbarian | primitive; uncivilized |
| Bluster | speak boastfully |
| Protuberance | bulge; something that sticks out |
| Parry | fight off attacker |
| Fop | one overly concerned with apperance |
| Quaintness | charming |
| Ignoble | causing disgrace |
| Uncouth | crude |
| Venus | godess of love and beauty |
| Scruples | doing waht is right |
| Vivacity | liveliness |
| Burgher | dweller in a town |
| Nebulous | lacking degfinite form |
| Improvise | invent without preperation |
| Provoke | incite to anger |
| Livery | uniforms |
| Haltingly | hesitantly, to be in doubt |
| Lyre | strigned instrument |
| Guile | deceitful; cunning |
