| A | B |
|---|
| brackish | unpleasant to taste, salty |
| formidable | impressive in strength or excellence |
| ethereal | heavenly, angelic |
| artisan | skilled worker in handicrafts of special trade |
| quartering | furnish lodging and food |
| sedition | illegal resistance to lawful authority |
| parasitic | to gain from someone else's efforts |
| apprentice | a student learning a trade |
| hearth | fireplace floor that extends out into the room |
| innumerable | unable to count |
| gauge | thickness or diameter of usually small or thin objects |
| crucible | container used to heat metals to high temperatures |
| pious | real or fake religious devotion |
| prosperous | successful |
| feeble | weak |
| annealing | heating to high temperatures |
| beau | male companion for a girl |
| deacon | high member of a church below a priest or minister |
| bellows | tool to create air current for a fire |
| spinster | "old maid" or never-married older woman |
| cobbled | paved with stones |
| spinet | small piano |
| crooked | dishonest |
| Whig | American colonist who favored independence |
| Tory | American colonist who favored England's rule |
| tyranny | abuse of power by a government or ruler |
| yokel | country bumpkin, hillbilly, hick |
| contempt | hatred |
| soot | ashes |
| idle | unmoving |
| paralysis | unable to move |
| regiment | military unit made up of a number of battalions |
| tethered | tied |
| privy | outhouse, Port-A-Potty |
| candelabra | decorative holder for several candles |
| swinish | lazy, pig-like |
| chaplain | clergyman who conducts religious services for an institution or group |
| "pride before the fall" | another way of saying, "When you think you can't be beat, you find out you have just been beaten." |
