| A | B |
|---|
| traipse | to go on foot or walk |
| corpse | a dead body |
| heroine | a mythological or legendary woman having the qualities of a hero |
| insinuation | a sly, subtle, and usually derogatory utterance |
| convergence | the act of coming together |
| editor | someone who prepares material for publication |
| fortunate | lucky |
| aggravate | to make worse |
| jawbreaker | a round hard candy |
| admonition | gentle or friendly reproof |
| quiver | to tremble or move with a slight tremblign motion |
| carcass | the living, material, or physical body |
| horsehair | cloth made from horsehair |
| relation | a relative |
| atmosphere | a surrounding influence or environmen |
| nasal | characterized by resonance produced through the nose |
| azalea | any of a subgenus of rhododendrons with funnel-shaped corollas and usually deciduous leaves including many species and hybrid forms cultivated as ornamentals |
| lobotomy | surgical severance of nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobes to the thalamus for the relief of some mental disorders |
| wigwam | a rough hut |
| tension | a state of latent hostility or opposition between individuals or groups |
| midwife | a person who assists women in childbirth |
| pagan | one who has little or no religion |
| spacious | roomy or expansive |
| mesmerize | hypnotize |
| immature | exhibiting less than an expected degree of maturity |
| impulsive | acting momentarily |
| reckless | lacking proper caution |
| spiteful | full of spite; malicious |
| tapeworm | a flatworm with a segmented body that is a parasite of the intestines of vertebrate animals including human beings |
| molasses | a thick brown syrup that is separated from raw sugar in sugar manufacture |
| killjoy | person who spoils the pleasure of others |
| newfangled | of the newest style |
| conjure | to produce as if by magic |
| pity | sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed, or unhappy |
| invisible | impossible to see |
| stubborn | hard to convince, persuade, or move |
