| A | B |
|---|
| Abundance | a great or plentiful amount |
| Benevolent | with good intent |
| Clementine | was a forty-niner, miner's daughter |
| Confinement | when a person is confined |
| Cud | what cows chew |
| Perch | seat, especially for birds |
| Plaited | braided |
| Scullery | a room where pots and pans are washed |
| Dissent | a strong difference of opinion |
| Hearken | to listen |
| Hideous | extremely ugly |
| Mangel-wurzel | a variety of the common beet |
| Mincing | taking small, delicate, artificial steps |
| Paddock | a field where horses are kept |
| Stout | a bit plump |
| Trodden | stepped on |
| Tushes | buttocks |
| Tyrannize | totally controlling another person |
| Vice | illegal and immoral activity |
| Whinney | the soft, high sound a horse makes |
| Boars | male pigs |
| Berkshire is the English county | where Windsor Castle is located |
| Apathy | a total lack of interest |
| Castration | gelding |
| Disheartened | discouraged |
| Expelled | to force out |
| Expounded | to give a detailed explanation |
| Inscribe | to write, engrave or print |
| Knoll | a tiny hill |
| Lawsuit | a civil action brought to court |
| Outlook | a view of a future situation |
| Acute | extreme |
| Blacksmith | a horseshoe maker |
| Chaff | the material around each grain |
| Dole out | to give or apportion |
| Parasite - an animal that lives | on or in another animal |
| Threshers are machines that cut | grain |
| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | cowrote the Communist Manifesto |
| After Marx's death Engels edited | the 2nd and 3rd volumes of Das Kapital |
| Artillery | very large guns |
| Cannibalism is the practice | of humans consuming humans |
| Contemptible | deserving contempt |
| Exploits | deeds of bravery |
| Flogging | whipping |
| Goring is causing an injury | with the horns or tusks |
| Irrepressible | unable to repress |
| Mingle | mix |
| Perpetually | forever |
| Posthumously | after death |
| Prophecy | a forecast of the future |
| Sentimentality | over-charged feelings |
| Skirmish | a short fight |
| Tractable | manageable |
| Unanimously | with one voice |
| Aloof | standoffish |
| Articulate | well spoken |
| Biding | waiting |
| Blithely | satisfied and without worry |
| Dynamo | power generator |
| Gaiters | waterproof leggins |
| Incubator | a device to keep eggs warm |
| Knoll | a small hill |
| Manifestly | obviously |
| Prance | to dance around and show off |
| Procure | to get, obtain |
| Sordid | morally ugly |
| Cryptic | coded |
| Malignant | diseased growth |
| Reconcile is to reach an | agreement after a dispute |
| Repose | asleep |
| Resolution | a statement of serious intent |
| Roused | woken up |
| Vain | proud, haughty |
| Capitulate | accept military defeat |
| graze | eat grass |
| Infanticide | killing babies |
| Pullet | small chicken |
| Sleet | mixture of rain and snow |
| Snowdrift | snow piled up by the wind |
| Stupefied | stunned |
| Tumult is a state of extreme | disorder |
| Contrived | artificial |
| Gambolled - lambs and little children | play with wild abandon |
| Gander | male goose |
| Hearse | funeral car |
| Hullabaloo | an uproar |
| Implements | tools |
| Noctural | having to do with night |
| Pensioner | a person receiving a pension |
| Privy | let in on privileged information |
| Sentinel | a person of guard duty |
| Unscathed | without harm or injury |
| Subversive actions are attempts | to undermine an established political system |
| Taciturn | unwilling to talk |
| Barley | a type of grain |
| Linseed | flax seed oil |
| Maxim | fundamental principle or rule |
| Oration | a speech |
| Piebald - horse with large | back and white patches |
| Poultices | medicine applied to a sore or lesion |
| Proclaim | state with authority |
| Republic | a country without a monarch |
| soup tureen | a serving dish |
| Stratagem - a carefully planned | method of dealing with something |
| Superannuated | retired |
| Bon mot | a witty saying |
| Dregs | the bottom of the barrel |
| Frugal | incredibly cautious with money |
| Haughty | snobby, stuck up |
| Incumbent | to be necessary |
| Inebriated | intoxicated |
| Insoluble | not able to be dissolved |
| Intimated | hinted |
| John Bull | a symbol of England |
