| A | B |
| troupe | performing group |
| seasoned | experienced |
| attain | to reach/achieve/get your goal |
| understudy | a trained substitute |
| folded | closed, gone out of business |
| precede | to go before in time or order |
| prejudice | a judgment made before knowing all the facts |
| diction | a person’s style of speaking or writing |
| distinctive | unique, recognizably different |
| graduated | to pass from one stage to a higher level |
| decades | a period of 10 years |
| tribulations | great trouble or distress |
| cult | a group of people with great admiration for a person, thing or idea |
| complete | finished, whole, full |
| compose | to put together or form |
| postscript | additional material in a letter added after a person signed it |