| A | B |
|---|
| biography | a written account of someone's life |
| credence | belief; acceptance as true |
| precipitate | to dash head first; to hasten the occurrence of |
| obsess | to sit against; to besiege like an evil spirit; to preoccupy the mind abnormally |
| superimpose | to lay something over something else |
| expel | to drive out |
| antebellum | before the war, especially before the Civil War |
| panoply | a full suit of armor; ceremonial attire; any magnificent or impressive array |
| preclude | to shut out beforehand; to make impossible by a previous action; to prevent |
| assessor | one who sits near to a judge as an assistant; an official who assesses property for taxation |
