| A | B |
|---|
| distended | expand or swell |
| wary | careful to quard against danger |
| emphatically | uttered with emphasis |
| demented | mentally ill |
| obscurity | the quality of being unknown |
| superficial | being on of near the surface |
| gesticulate | to make gestures while speaking, for wmphasis |
| ludicrous | laughable orhilarious, absurd |
| propitiate | to conciliate or appease |
| ineffectual | insufficient to produce the desired results |
| derision | contemptuous jeering |
| obscene | offensive to accept standards of decency |
| devastated | destroy, to lay waste |
| incantation | recitation of verbal charms or spells |
| corruption | the act of corrupting |
| inimical | injurious, harmful |
| inscrutable | difficult to fathom or understand |
| purged | to freed from impurities, purify |
