| A | B |
|---|
| contrabond | goods forbidded by law to be imported or exported |
| inexorable | that cannot be altered or changed |
| inscrutable | obscure, mysterious |
| coppice- wood | small trees, shrubs |
| piscatory | pertaining to fish |
| pecuniary | involving money |
| incommodiousness | causing inconvenience |
| Barmecide | pretended feast |
| Abyssinia | old name of Ethiopia |
| Ashantee | member or region of central Africa or Ghana |
| gaol | British jail |
| gaoler | jailor |
| spile | heavy stake driven into ground as support |
| Old Bailey | historic criminal court in London on Old Bailey Street |
| Bedlam | hospital for mentally ill in London |
| Bastille | state prison in Paris destroyed during Revolutionary War |
| laconic | using few words, concise |
| Bacchanalian | drunken party |
| Dervishes | members of various Muslim religious groups dedicated to poverty and danced |
| talisman | anything thought to have magic powers |
| propitiate | to appease |
| obsequiousness | dutiful, great willingness to obey |
| postilions | one who rides the left handed horse of a carriage |
| gossamer | lightweight, flimsey |
| Furies | 3 terrible female spirits who punish the doers of unavenged crimes |
| flambeau | lighted torch |
| incommode | to bother, inconvenience |
| vulgar | crude, obscure, language of the common people |
| poniarded | stabbed with a dagger |
| perquisitions | a tip- payment in addition to regular pay |
| Hotel de Ville | townshall |
| miscreant | evil, criminal |
| tocsin | alarm bell |
| Sardananpalus | last king of Nivea |
| farrier | blacksmith, shoes, horses |
| metempsychosis | passing of soul at death |
| Carmagnole | costume and dance popular at revolution |
| reticule | womens small handbag (eyeglasses) |
| tergiversation | deserting a cause |
| peroration | summing up a speech |
| imperious | urgent |
| inveteracy | habitual, firmly standing |
| rapacious | greedy |
