A to B Vocabulary

2. A substance used to aid the spread of fire.
8. An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top (similar to but narrower than a mesa).
9. Become accustomed to a new climate or to new conditions.
10. A person who derives advantage from something, especially a trust, will, or life insurance policy.
11. Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.
12. A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.
14. A strongly worded critical attack.
15. A horizontal passage leading into a mine for the purposes of access or drainage.
16. conducive to success; favorable.
17. A slaughterhouse.

1. A thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another.
3. relating to or characteristic of alchemy, the medieval forerunner of chemistry concerned with the transmutation of matter.
4. Begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish.
5. A swindle or confidence trick.
6. A descriptive or anecdotal treatise on various real or mythical kinds of animals, especially a medieval work with a moralizing tone.
7. A temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers.
8. A whalebone.
11. A twilled dress fabric of worsted and silk or cotton.
12. Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
13. A person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or pastime.