| A | B |
|---|
| antiquity | the far distant past; great age; the people who lived in the distant past |
| benighted | holding to traditional views, ideas, or principles |
| boughs | an outgrowth from a woody plant |
| commotion | a state of disorderly unrest |
| deceptions | cheats; dishonesties; frauds |
| descendants | offspring; children |
| droning | to spend time in idleness; to make a low, prolonged sound |
| famished | extremely hungry |
| trestles | pairs of hinged or jointed legs used as one of two or more supports on which planks are laid |
| groped | to feel about blindly |
| ingenious | highly skilled in devising |
| marjoram | an aromatic plant used in cooking |
| plight | dilemma |
| throttled | to be strangled |
| venture | to risk |
| waistcoat | a vest, worn over the trouser top and under a jacket |
| yammering | yakking |
