| A | B |
|---|
| opulence | riches, affluence, lavishness, sumptuousness |
| piety | devotion to god, dutifulness in religion; piousness |
| scions | descendants, children |
| prostrate | to throw or to put in a face-down position , humble and submissive posture |
| plethora | an abundance, an excess, a superfluity |
| lament | to mourn out loud, express sorrow or regret |
| calamity | state of deep distress or misery caused by major misfortune; catastrophe |
| dereliction | an intentional abandoning ; negligence; ruin |
| drone | a person forced to do hard, menial labor |
| concubine | a woman with whom a man cohabits without being married |
| vestiges | a trace visible sign left by something vanished or lost; a relic or remnant |
| lackey | one who waits upon or serves obsequiously |
| pate | the top of the head |
| perfidious | disloyal; treacherous; faithless |
| euphoria | a state of good feeling; ecstatic; joyful; elated |
| nuptial | matrimonial; pertaining to the state of being wedded |
| matricidal | murdering of a mother by son or daughter |
| engender | to produce, cause or create; to bring about |
| panegryic | a eulogistic oration; formal or elaborate praise |
| obsequies | funeral or burial rites |
| nonentities | nonperson; an insignificant person; an unknown |
| eulogy | a speech in praise of someone; a tribute |
| usurp | to take over unrightfully; to unlawfully seize |
| cipher | a nobody, a nonentity a nonperson |
| dirge | a lamentation; a funeral song |
| fillip | a trivial addition; or a blow or dismissive motion with finger and thumb |
| bereft | to be without, to suffer a loss of someone or something |
| antipathy | hatred towards something; loathing, an intense aversion |
| odious | repellent; revolting, detestable |
| surfeit | an excess; a surplus, a glut |
| heinous | shockingly evil |
| succumb | to yield; to give into |
| rubicund | ruddy, a red color |
| renege | to go back on your word |
| obtuseness | denseness; slow-witted; dullness |
| minions | a servile dependent; follower or underlying; a subordinate |
| expatiating | moving about freely at will |
| specious | deceptively alluring; having a false look of truth |
| flagrancy | obviously inconsistent with what is moral/right: conspicuously offensive |
| impudent | rude, disrespectful; contemptuous; marked by cocky boldness |
| trollop | a strumpet; a vulgar disreputable woman; esp. sexually promiscuous |
| compunction | scruples, qualms; anxiety arising from an awareness of guilt |
| ruse | a scam; a ploy, a deception |
| expiate | to earn forgiveness, to atone |
| effigies | a crude figure representing a person |
| lyric | expressing direct, intense emotion esp. in a manner suggestive of song |
