| A | B |
| anarchy | total absence of government. |
| anarchy | lack of order; total confusion |
| apprehend | to seize, to arrest |
| apprehend | to understand |
| arraign | to bring before a court to face charges |
| assimilate | to absorb into a population |
| assimilate | to take in a part and absorb into the whole |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary |
| calamity | an event that causes great suffering and harm; disaster |
| conspire | to plan together secretly to do something wrong or illegal |
| dissention | a difference of opinion; disagreement |
| elapse | to pass of slip by |
| imminent | about to happen |
| interrogate | to formally ask questions of |
| lionize | to treat as a celebrity |
| meticulous | extremely careful |
| shackle | a ring or band around the arm or leg |
| shackle | something that prevents free action |
| shackle | to prevent freedom of action |
| swelter | to suffer from great heat |