| A | B |
|---|
| abductions | kidnappings |
| hoax | trick or fraud |
| herds | groups of cattle, sheep, or other animals |
| sapphire | deep-blue variety of corundum, a precious stone |
| traces | marks left by a past person, thing, or event |
| samurai | Japanese warriors |
| provinces | administrative divisions of a country |
| frontier | developing, often still uncivilized or lawless region of a country |
| shogun | any of the military governors of Japan who, until 1868, had absolute rule |
| tumultuous | full of disturbance or upheaval |
| tumultuous | unsettled |
| chaos | disordered, formless matter, supposed to have existed before the universe took its present, orderly shape |
| ritual | form or system of rites, religious or otherwise |
| ancient | belonging to long ago |
| essential | basic |
| essential | fundamental |
| foundations | fundamentals or beginnings of something |
| potentially | possibly |
| motivate | move to take action |
| mobilized | organized for action |
| mobilized | readied |
| eliminate | get rid of |
| eliminate | remove |
| universal | regarded as complete |
| universal | whole |
| deposited | entrusted for safekeeping or put |
| stationary | unmoving |
| stationary | fixed or still |
| edicts | orders |
| edicts | decrees |
