| A | B |
|---|
| affected | Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon. |
| bustle | A framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt. |
| courier | A person who carries a message. |
| entrusted | to commit to another with confidence or trust |
| foreboding | A strong feeling that something bad is about to happen. |
| irksome | So boring that it causes mental weariness. |
| mayhem | Violent and needless disturbance. |
| profiteers | men who overcharged government for goods desperately needed for war. |
| prostrate | Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground. |
| rancid | food or liquid that has gone bad or sour |
| render | Show in, or as in, a picture. |
| replenished | Fill something that had previously been emptied. |
| secessionist | one who encouraged the South to withdraw from the Union |
| skulked | To move about in a secretive manner. |
| vile | Being extremely bad, evil, or immoral. |
