| A | B |
|---|
| carrion | dead and rotting flesh |
| carreening | to sway while moving fast |
| autopsy | a medical examination of a dead body to find the cause of death |
| lambasting | to scold harshly |
| gaunt | very thin and bony |
| nonchalantly | not showing excitement or anxiety; coolly confident, unflustered, unworried |
| marauding | to rove about in search of plunder |
| reprisal | injury inflicted in retaliation for injury received, as in war |
| perilous | causing or involving great danger; risky |
| scoffing | to speak with mild scorn or derision |
| urchin | a small child, esp. a poor, mischievous child |
| shenanigans | amusing, mischievous or treacherous prank |
| marooned | left on an island or coast, far from other people |
| pandemonium | wild, tumultuous uproar |
