| A | B |
| omen | a sign of what will happen in the future |
| augurer | a person who reads signs to predict the future |
| interpret | to translate or change words spoken in one language to another language |
| errand | a short trip taken to complete a task |
| traitor | a person who is not loyal to his/her country or who turns away from a former allegiance |
| sacrifice | to give up something for the good of something else |
| idle | not busy; lazy |
| creature | a living thing |
| carpenter | a person who works with wood to construct furniture |
| cobbler | a person who makes shoes |
| leather | animal hide or skin that is conditioned and used for clothing accessories |
| rejoice | to show great happiness and celebration |
| captive | a person who has been caught; a prisoner |
| cheer | to yell or applaud to show support and enthusiasm for something |
| plague | a disease that spreads rapidly and to many people; a curse |
| tremble | to shake slightly from cold, fear, sickness |
| soothsayer | a peson who can see into the future |
| spoil | to lose the quality of something; to rot |
| raging | to show great anger by yelling and/or moving about violently/angrily |
| noble | high birth right; cultured and educated |
| unstable | not balanced or firm |
| oak | a kind of tall tree |
| ambitious | wanting to achieve more in life |
| swell | to become enlarged, especially because of an injury |
| torch | a light produced by fire on stick |
| shriek | to scream suddenly |
| threaten | to suggest that danger will come |
| pale | white; a lighter color from being sick or afraid |
| dreadful | awful |
| ancestors | people who came before others in a family |
| dagger | a short knife used as a tool or for defense |
| slavery | the act of using people as servants and granting no freedoms |
| tyranny | unrestrained use of power; dictatorship |
| vile | disgusting; gross |
| bargain | a good price; to negotiate a better price |
| conspiracy | an organized effort by several people to do something bad to another person |
| superstition | the belief in signs as warnings or phrophesies |
| oath | a promise; the swearing of allegiance |
| remorse | sadness or regret for previous actions |
| meteor | a fiery falling rock in space; seen from earth |