| A | B |
|---|
| reverential | deeply respectful |
| conservatory | school for instruction in music |
| common | land owned or used by all the people of a town, village, etc. |
| trepidation | fear |
| excreciatingly | very painful |
| interminably | endlessly |
| jocularity | playful humor |
| pedantic | scholarly in a dull and narrow way |
| chastened | discipline |
| frippery | foolish display |
| furtively | slyly |
| retinue | group of attendants |
| fortuitous | accidential |
| patrimonies | properties inherited from one's fathers or ancestors |
| precipated | brought about suddenly |
| petulance | peevishness |
| mundane | ordinary |
| forays | a raid for plunder |
| incorrigible | too firmly fixed in bad ways |
| poignant | intense |
| pugilistic | of or having to do with boxing |
| somnolent | sleepy |
| plaintive | sad |
| epitome | person or thing typical or representative of something |
| apotheosis | glorified ideal |
| effluvium | vapor or odor, usually unpleasant |
| temerity | reckless boldness |
| inviolable | sacred |
| abrogate | cancel |
| coalesce | grow together |
| progenitor | forefather |
| fatuous | silly |
| retrospection | survey of past events or experiences |
| rancor | bitter resentment or ill will |
| unseemly | not suitable |
