| A | B |
|---|
| milieu | environment or surroundings |
| discomfit | to defeat in battle |
| crepuscular | active in the twilight; relating to, or resembling twilight |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply, excess |
| imbue | to fill with moisture; to fill with color; dye; to inspire |
| lissome | easily flexed: nimble |
| privation | the state of being deprived; lack of what is needed for existence |
| sate | to cloy with overabundance; to appease by indulging to the full |
| culpable | responsible for wrong or error; blameworthy |
| portent | an indication of something about to occur; an omen |
| transgress | to go beyond or over limit or boundary; to act in violation of; sin |
| ebullient | boiling, as a liquid; filled with excitement; exuberant |
| hauteur | hautiness, arrogance |
| withhold | to refrain from giving, granting or permitting; forbear |
| supple | readily bent; pliant; moving and bending with agility; limber; compliant, adaptable |
| comeuppance | punishment that one deserves |
| divest | to strip; to deprive, as of rights; dispossess |
| truculent | savage and cruel; fierce; pugnacious; defiant |
| harbinger | a forerunner |
| suffuse | to spread through or over, as with color or light; to pour underneath |
| incandescent | emitting visible light as a result of being heated; shining brilliantly; very bright |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen |
| condescend | to deal with others in a patronizing manner |
| exemplary | one that is worthy of being copied; a model example |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones; the quality of tone distinctive of a particular singing voice or musical instrument |
