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bargain (269) - to try to get good terms or make a good deal

barked (275) - shouted sharply

"blacks outnumbered whites three to one" (269) - there were more black people than white people in Phillips County, so many more that for every one white person there were three black people

Bolshevism (281) - extreme radicalism

booming (280) - rapidly increasing

bootlegger (265) - person who sold, transported, or made alcoholic liquor unlawfully

bore (278) - showed

bow (268) - give in; submit; yield

bred (275) - caused; produced

brutality (284) - cruelty; savageness; inhuman conduct

buggy (268) - in general, a light carriage, with or without a top, pulled by one horse and having a single large seat

bungalow (268) - a small house, usually of one story or a story and a half, with low, sweeping lines