| A | B |
|---|
| affect (verb) | influence; change; shape; involve |
| effect | result; consequence; outcome |
| billiards | pool; type of game in which you use a wooden stick to hit balls on a felt table |
| journey | trip; adventure |
| character | person or animal in a short story, book, movie, play, TV show, or other written work |
| society | civilization; culture |
| decision | choice; conclusion; resolution; judgment |
| analysis | examination; investigation; study |
| circulated | spread; distributed; scattered |
| petition (noun) | formal request or appeal usually signed by a lot of people |
| stalled | stopped; got stuck; couldn't go any farther |
| turf | territory; home area or neighborhood |
| boulders | big rocks |
| sacred | holy; blessed; revered |
| intramural | a league of teams within a school that doesn't play other schools |
| sedans | cars that aren't real small by aren't very large like a van |
| wound up | past tense of wind up |
| acquittal | release; discharge; exoneration; freeing (as in when a person on trial is innocent, he/she is acquitted) |
| stunned | surprised; amazed; astonished |
| exorcist | person who uses a spell or formula to cast out or remove the devil or other demons |
| weird | odd; unusual; strange |
| plight | dilemma; predicament; quandary; difficulty |
| cursed | jinxed; damned; doomed; ill-fated; |
| ancient | very old |
| amulet | small piece of jewelry thought to give protection against evil, danger, or disease |
| shrivel | get smaller; shrink; wither; dry up |
| convinced | persuaded; talked into doing something |
| deserted (adjective) | empty; abandoned; uninhabited |
| convicted of | found to be guilty |
| corruption | dishonesty; fraud; illegal wrongdoing |
| pungent | strong; overpowering (usually referring to how something smells) |
| opponent | rival; adversary; foe; challenger; enemy |
| speechless | astounded; thunderstruck; amazed; wordless |
| mysterious | unexplained; puzzling; mystifying |
