| A | B |
| hearse | a large car used to carry a dead body in a casket to a funeral |
| casket | coffin; a long box in which a dead person is buried or burned |
| mourning | a time of feeling very sad because someone has died |
| lessened | decreased; became smaller in size, amount, importance, or value |
| urgency | the feeling of being very important and needing to be dealt with immediately |
| condescending | showing that you think other people are not as good or important as you are |
| extinguished | made a fire stop burning or made a light stop shining |
| alertly | in a way that is always watching and noticing anything strange, unusual, etc. |
| glanced | looked quickly |
| protruding | sticking out from somewhere |
| commotion | sudden noisy activity or arguing |
| tripped | hit something with your foot while walking or running so that you fell or almost fell down |
| imitating | doing something in exactly the same way as someone or something else |
| winced | to react to something by looking upset or moving slightly, especially when you are in pain or embarrassed |
| clumsy | moving in an awkward way and tending to break things |
| drunkard | someone who is drunk or often gets drunk |
| hobble | to walk with difficulty, taking small steps, usually because you are injured |
| groan | to make a deep long sound because you are in pain or unhappy |
| cruel | making someone suffer or feel unhappy |
| dropper | a short glass tube with a hollow rubber part at one end, used for measuring liquid in drops |