| A | B |
|---|
| talons | claws of an animal |
| buffet | a cabinet or set of shelves for the display of dishes |
| thong | a strip of leather used especially for fastening something |
| current | occurring in or belonging to the present time |
| graces | help given to people by God in overcoming temptation |
| tapestries | a heavy cloth that has designs or pictures woven into it |
| mail | letters or parcels sent from one person |
| scabbard | a protective case for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| onyx | chalcedony with straight parallel alternating bands of color |
| collonade | an evenly spaced row of columns usually supporting the base of a roof structure |
| thready | consisting of or bearing fine threads or fibers |
| neutral | neither one thing nor the other |
| council | an advisory or legislative body |
| gratitude | the state of being grateful |
| humiliation | loss of pride or self-respect |
| fowling gear | clothes worn to hunt birds |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is shaped and worked by heating and hammering |
| quandary | a state of confusion or doubt |
| honing | to sharpen with or as if with a fine abrasive stone |
| pavilion | a building partly or completely detached from the main building or group of buildings |
| outrider | a mounted escort |
| arced | to form an electric arc |
| tarried | to be slow in coming or going |
| chafed | rubbed to wear away |
| brook | small stream |
| liege | owing or giving service to a lord |
| martingale | a device for steadying a horse's head |
| stand | to support oneself on the feet in an erect position |
| subtle | difficult to understand or distinguish |
| eerie | causing fear or uneasiness because of strangeness or gloominess |
| armory | place where arms are kept and where soldiers are often trained |
| visor | a movable front upper piece on a helmet |
| roust | to drive (as from bed) roughly |
| circumference | distance around a cirlcle |
| meander | curve |
| potential | something that can develop or become actual |
| fiends | extremely wicked people |
