| A | B |
|---|
| snipe | a type of wading bird |
| pariah | member of lowest class in India; a social outcast |
| rectory | home occupied by a minister or clergy |
| moor | a broad area of open land often high but poorly drained with patches of heath and peat bogs |
| bog | soft, waterlogged ground or a marsh |
| falter | to be unsteady in purpose or action as from loss of courage or confidence or to waver |
| infirmities | frailties or disabilities |
| imminent | about to occur or impending |
| garrulous | talkative |
| reminiscence | reminiscence an account of a past experience or event |
| dilapidated | fallen into ruin or decay or shabby |
| interminable | seemingly endless |
| enterprising | showing energy and initiative |
| vagabond | someone who wanders from place to place having no visible means of support |
| mental apparition | wandering of the mind |
| contiguous | neighboring or next to |
| diatribe | bitter abusive discussion |
| surreptitiously | stealthily or in secret |
| renegade | traitor |
| conjecture | to form an opinion without definite evidence or to guess |
