| A | B |
|---|
| ransom | payment; a price paid or demanded before a captive is set free; exchange; deal |
| haste | hurrying; quick; rush |
| clad | clothed; dressed; |
| kin | family; relatives; |
| parry | block; duck; deflect; fend off; shield yourself from |
| carcass | body; corpse; cadaver; dead body |
| forsaken | abandoned; discarded; rejected; to leave alone; to give up |
| dwells | lives; resides; |
| beseeching | begging; imploring; pleading; to ask earnestly |
| deny | reject; negate; disagree with; refuse; contradict |
| plaited | woven; braided; intertwined; |
| vain | unsuccessful; useless; unproductive; futile; |
| cunning | sly; wily; scheming; calculating; sneaky; clever; deceiving |
| score | a number of; total; a group |
| innocuous | not capable of causing damage; harmless; having no annoying or offensive qualities |
