| A | B |
| butchered | slaughtered or dressed animals for market |
| blizzard | windstorm with intense cold and driving snow |
| calamity | disaster |
| haberdasheries | men's clothing stores |
| immigrants | people who leave a country to settle in another |
| marshal | a federal police officer |
| nationalities | belonging to particular nations |
| nuggets | small lumps |
| panning | washing in a pan for precious metals |
| sluice | a long box for separating gold ore |
| treaty | a long box for separating gold ore |
| veins | lengthy occurrences of ore |