| A | B |
|---|
| tenant | someone who pays rents for the use of land or a building |
| collateral | money lent as a guarantee for another loan |
| obnoxious | unpleasant, offensive |
| envisioned | to be seen in the mind's eye |
| haughtily | displaying overbearing pride, arrogant |
| reluctantly | emotionally or mentally opposing an action |
| retaliated | to return blow for blow, or harm for harm |
| tongue-lashing | a very severe correction |
| interminable | seemingly endless |
| restrained | prevented from doing something |
| eviction | to cast out a tenant from a house or land |
| dialect | regional form of language |
| bootlegging | to make, smuggle, or sell liquor illegally |
| insolently | rudely, disrespectfully |
| impaled | to pierce or pass a sharp pointed object through |
