| A | B |
|---|
| croon | to sing or mumur something in a soft low voice |
| Chronic | having a a particular long-term illness |
| Ornery | uncooperative and irratible |
| pinochle | game of cards |
| embalm | to treat a dead body with a preservative to prevent decay |
| grievance | bitterness or anger at having recieved an unfair treatment |
| prototype | original form of something |
| acoustic | relating to sound or the study of sound |
| braggart | person who brags a lot |
| sadistic | gaining of pleasure at someone elses' pain |
| ineffectual | not competent |
| matriarchy | closed society where women are in charge |
| deduce | to figure something out |
| maudlin | overly sentimental |
| ample | as much as possible with some left over |
| bile | fluid produced in the liver |
| latrine | toiler |
| scaffolding | system of scaffolds |
| assert | to state something as being true |
| punitive | punishment causing harm or damage |
| convulsion | a violent shaking of the body |
| bellow | to shout in a low deep voice |
| wheedle | to coax or try an persuade |
| hovel | small dirty poorly built house |
| indigent | extremely poor |
| jounce | to bounce up and down then rock side to side |
| flophouse | cheap motel or rooming house |
| keelhaul | drag someone under a boat by rope as punishment |
| to troll | fish by dragging a baited line through water |
| chum | fisherman's bait , es[ecoa;;u chopped fish scattered on the water |
| gaff | to pole with large hook on the end that is used to hold a land a large fish |
| jetty | a wall or other barrier out into a body or water to shelter a harbor or protect a shoreline |
| dismay | a feeling of hopelessness, disappointment, or discouragment |
| venture | a business enterprise |
| rivet | a metal fastener |
| notorious | well known for some undesirable feature |
| shudder | to shake or tremble uncontrollable from a reaction such as cold, fear, or disgust |
| lobotomy | in medicine - the destruction or removal of the prefrontal lobes of the cortex of the brain |
| ramshackle | poor maintained or constructed and seeming likely to fall apart of collapse |
