| A | B |
| apothecary | Pharmacist |
| beadle | city official, lower in rank |
| corsets | ladies undergarment |
| human chattels | slaves |
| impotent | powerless |
| impudent | shamelessly bold |
| malevolent | evil |
| piety | devotion to religious duties |
| scold | find fault (yell) |
| taciturn | almost always silent |
| veranda | portico or porch with roof |
| unsullied | untouched or unused |
| spittoon | jarlike container to spit into |
| picket | pointed stake or sharpened pole |
| foray | do somethin that is unusual |
| domiciled | place where a person lives |
| dictum | formal statement of principle |
| brethren | members of a church |
| assuaged | to lessen or to calm |
| ambled | to walk at a slow, leisurely pace |