| A | B |
| inundation | flood; deluge |
| lamentable | grievous; deplorable; distressing |
| loathsome | disgusting; detestable |
| peevish | hard to please; irritable |
| pilgrimage | long journey |
| prostrate | lying face downward in a demonstration of great humility |
| receptacle | anything used to contain or hold soemthing else |
| resolution | the act of resolving or determing |
| shroud | cloth used to wrap a corpse for burial |
| slander | false statement damaging a person's character |