| A | B |
|---|
| Encumbered | Burdened or hampered by a weight of any sort |
| Timidity | a lack of boldness or daring; meekness;shyness |
| Waiflike | like an orphan |
| Profoundly | deeply |
| Perilous | Dangerous, fraught with risks and dangers |
| Expound | Explain in great detail |
| Firmament | sky, heavens |
| Premonition | an intuition or a foreboding |
| Invalids | sickly people the weak and ill |
| Cringe | to shrink away, or cower |
| Truncheons | a short stick or billy club carried by policemen |
| Customary | usual |
| Prolonged | lengthy, long-drawn out |
| Abominable | loathsome, horrible, detestable |
| Kaddish | Jewish prayer for the dead |
| Bestial | like a beast; low, despicable, brutal |
| Lucid | clear |
| Blandishments | flattery, cajolery, coaxing in order to get someone to do something |
| Imperceptibly | not easily seen or noticed |
| Afflicted | stricken, grievously hurt |
| Reprieve | temporary respite or relief from pain or punishment |
| Relentlessly | pitilessly, mercilessly, ruthlessly |
| Beseechingly | In a begging, pleading manner |
| Spazmodically | in a short, jerky, muscular contactions |
| Evacuation | the removal or sending away of people from a threatened area;emptying out a place |
