| A | B |
| perplexed | she looked perplexed a moment and said, not fierce,but still loud enough for the furniture could hear |
| endowed | it was her belief she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy |
| forestalls | so he forestalled what might be the next move |
| expeditions | soon the free boys would come tripping along on all sorts of delicoius expeditions |
| alacrity | Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face but alacrity in his heart |
| covent | to make a man covent something it is only necassary to make the thing difficult to attain |
| audacious | You'd been into some other audacious mischief when i wasnt around |
| haunts | he wandered far away from the accustomed haunts of boys |
| convulsion | Mary gave him a brand new barlow knife worth 12 1/2 cents, and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations |
| galled | he now looked exceedingly improved and uncomfortable and he was fully uncomfortable ash look; for there was a restraint about whole clothes and cleanliness that galled him |
| Mien | Mr. walter was very earnest of mien and very sincere and honest at heart |
| restive | he was restive all through it |
| formidable | it was a large black beetle w. formidable jaws- a pinch bug as tom called it |
| pariah | shortly, tom came upon the juvenille pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard |
| ostentation | till he brought up at the foot and yeilded up the pewter medal which he had worn w. ostentation for months |