| A | B |
| esteem | regard with respect |
| obscured | indistinctly heard; faint |
| boisterous | rough and stormy; violent |
| alderman | a member of the municipal legislative body |
| benefice | a church office endowed with fixed capital assets |
| purged | to free from impurities |
| loathe | to dislike (someone or something) greatly |
| iamb | A metrical foot of two syllables, one short (or unstressed) and one long (or stressed |
| meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| pentameter | A line of poetry that has five metrical feet; 10 sylables |