| A | B |
| reel | spool on which movie film is wound |
| bungalow | one-story house |
| breadwinners | main wage earners;workers |
| donned | put on;wore |
| pinochle | card game |
| sacrilegious | irreverent;disrespectful |
| ascertain | find out;determine |
| austere | plain;severe |
| cacophony | uproar;disharmony |
| incarcerated | jailed;locked up |
| invective | criticism;abuse |
| rankness | offensive smell;rottenness |
| redolent | fragrant;odorous |
| thunderstruck | amazed;stunned |
| transfixed | rooted to the spot;frozen |
| unedified | uninformed;uneducated |
| cajoled | coaxed;sweet-talked |
| contradictions | inconsistencies;discrepencies |
| dispensaries | places where products are distributed |
| courting | inviting;encouraging through actions/beliefs |