| A | B |
|---|
| palpable | able to be touched or felt |
| indolent | lazy; idle |
| bizarre | odd in appearance |
| naive | unsophisticated |
| scruples | misgivings about something that one feels is wrong |
| blandly | in a mild and soothing manner |
| grotesque | having a strange and bizarre design |
| futile | hopeless |
| Amazon | large river in South America |
| "flushed his quarry" | forced his prey into the open |
| palatial | being like a palace |
| chateau | a mansion |
| gargoyle | strange and distorted animal, usually found in high places on buildings |
| astrakhan | loosely curled fur made from the skins of young lambs |
| Cossack | member of a people from southern Russia, known for their fierceness |
| cosmopolite | person who is at home in all parts of the world |
| Crimea | region in southwestern Russia, on the Black Sea |
| Caucasus | mountain range in southern Russia |
| debacle | a bad defeat |
| lascars | Oriental sailors |
| knouter | someone who beats criminals with a leather whip |
| tartar | stubborn, violent person |
| au revoir | French for "until we meet again" |
| Marcus Aurelius | Roman emperor and philosopher, 121-180 A.D. |
