| A | B |
| jealous | intolerant of rivalry or unfaithfulness |
| sly | clever in concealing one's aims or ends |
| distress | pain or suffering |
| pity | sympathetic sorrow for one who is suffering |
| suspected | imagined someone was guilty on slight evidence or without proof |
| polygamy | marriage in which one spouse may have more than one mate at the same time |
| devoured | ate up greedily or ravenously |
| mournful | expressing sorrow |
| droned | talked in a persistently dull or monotonous tone |
| gadfly | any of various flies (as a horesefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |