| A | B |
|---|
| vendor | someone who sells something |
| saloon | a place where people buy alcohol and drink it |
| dowry | property that a wife brings into a new marriage |
| clan | a group of family members |
| lynch | to put to death without a trial |
| bilge | the bottom of a ship's hull |
| conventional | observing the customs of society |
| dialect | regional variety of a language |
| insolent | to show disrespect |
| pious | to act in a very religous manner |
| phenominal | an extraordinary person or event |
| tinker | to repair or adjust something |
| skirmish | a minor engagement of war |
| poultice | a heated, medicated mass spread on a cloth and applied to a wound |
| unalloyed | unmixed, pure |
| malleable | capable of being shaped by beating with a hammer |
| meticulous | extreen care in attending to detail |
| rheumatic | inflamation or pain in muscles or joints |
| mutual | having the same feeling for one another |
| hunkered down | crouch, squat |
| embodiment | to express in a definite form |
| intuitive | to have quick insight into things |
| begrudge | to give in reluctantly |
| guild | an association of men with common ideas and goals |
