| A | B |
|---|
| leery | suspicious |
| treason | to go against your country |
| pretense | a false appearence |
| decisive | firmness, resolute, final |
| mulishness | stubborn, unyeilding |
| vile | hateful |
| snipe | a brownish bird with a long bill |
| gleeful | happy, full of joy |
| dunce | stupid |
| truss | a frame to sopport a roof |
| foliage | a group of leafy plants |
| brambles | briers, prickly plants or shrubs |
| resentment | anger felt as a result of something considered mean |
| amber | brownish yellow in color |
| barnacle | hard shelled sea animal that attaches to underwater oblects |
| ventured | an undertaking that is dangerous or daring |
| embankment | a mound of stones or earth |
| fend | to ward off from attack |
| mired | stuck in the mud |
| bog | area of wet swampy ground |
| receding | to move away from a point |
| surge | to move forward with gathering force |
| girded | to encircle or surround |
| apprentices | people who work for instruction and not pay |
| throttle | to strangle or choke |
| plunder | to take booty or valuables |
| incident | a particular occurance or event |
| gorged | to stuff with food |
| fowl | a type of bird such as a chicken |
| bleak | gloomy, dreary, depressing |
| grub | food |
| anxious | nervious, uneasy, worried |
| cove | a small cavern |
| fathom | 6 feet |
| vague | not clear |
| brazen | rudly bold, cocky |
| balked | refused to move |
| elation | very happy, joyful |
| derelict | homeless or jobless person |
| manacle | handcuffs |
| fret | to be uneasy; worry |
| inaudible | impossible to hear |
| cavernous | full of tunnels |
| murky | dark, gloomy |
| verge | on the edge of |
| notorious | known widely, fomous |
| dumbfounded | amaze or bewilder |
