| A | B |
| wives | woman who has a husband; married woman |
| Sioux | American Indian tribe living on the plains of the northern United States and southern Canada |
| tariffs | list of duties or taxes that a government charge on imports and exports |
| great-aunts | grandaunt |
| mementos | something that serves as a reminder for something that is gone; souvenir |
| mosquitoes | any of a family of small, slender insects with two wings |
| crises | a deciding event or events |
| analyses | breaking up of anything complex into its various simple elements |
| criteria | rule or standard for making judgement; a standard |
| species | group of related organisms that have certain permanent characteristics in common |
| wharves | platforms built along the shore or out fromt he shore, beside which ships can load and unload |
| ghettos | a part of a city where any racial group or nationality lives, a part of a city in Europe where Jews were required to live |
| pistachios | a greenish nut having a flavor that suggests almond |
| vetoes | the right or power of a president, govenor, ets. to reject bills passed by a lawmaking body |
| embargoes | an order of government forbidding the merchant ships to leave its ports |
| sisters-in-law | sister of one's husband or wife; wife of one's brother |
| diagnoses | act or process of identifying a disease by careful investigation of its symptoms |
| stimuli | something that stirs to action or effort; stimulus |
| phenomena | fact, event, or circumstance that can be observed; an extraordinary person or thing |
| giraffes | African mammal that chews ist cud and has a very long neck, long legs, and spotted skin |