| A | B |
| glider | a porch seat suspended by chains |
| quarrel | to aregue or disagree |
| muffled | to make a sound quieter or duller |
| comedian | an entertainer who tell jokes and funny stories to make people laugh |
| holler (hollow) | a deep valley, ravine |
| tote | to carry or haul away |
| scald | to burn with very hot liquid or steam |
| outhouse | an outdoor toliet usually built with a wooden fram around it |
| remedies | something that relieves pain, cures a disease |
| salve | an ointment or a cream that relieves pain and help heal wounds burns, or sores |
| lament | to feel or show great sadness |
| frayed | to unravel |
| precise | very accurate or exact |
| kin | a person or people related to you |
| suffocate | to kill by cutting off the supply of air or oxygen |
| examine | to look carefully at something |
| slaughtered | to kill animals for their meat |
| scene | a view or a picture |
| mandolin | a small guitarlike instrument with metal strings and a body that is shaped like a pear |
| katydids | a large green insect that is related to the grasshopper. The male rubs its front wings together to make a shrill noise that sounds like its name |