| A | B |
| Allies | People who help or support |
| Ambiguous | Unclear; Understood in more than one way |
| Benevolent | Desiring to help others; charitable |
| Compelling | Having a powerful and irresistible effect; requiring acute admiration, attention, or respect |
| Condemn | to pronounce to be guilty; sentence to punishment |
| Cynical | Having a negative or disrespectful attitude |
| Dilemmas | Problems |
| Fending for | Taking care of oneself without assistance |
| Fostered | Taken care of by someone other than one's parents |
| Framework | A structure for supporting or enclosing something else |
| Give weight to | Believe |
| Henceforth | From this time on |
| Humble | Not proud or arrogant; modest |
| Idealized | To make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence |
| Initiation | A formal, ritualized introduction into an organization |
| Loner | Person who chooses to spend a lot of time alone |
| Ogres | A giant or monster in legends and fairy tales that eats humans |
| Perplexed | Confused |
| Prosperity | A successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, esp. in financial respects; good fortune. |
| Protagonist | The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work |
| Quest | Search; a trip taken to find something of value |
| Saga | A long adventure story with a hero |
| Secular | Nonreligious |
| Sidekick | Trustworthy; faithful companion |
| Simpleton | A person who isn't very smart |
| Spiritually | Of or pertaining to sacred things or matters |
| Supernatural | Of, pertaining to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal |
| Testimony | Evidence in support of a fact or statement; proof |
| Traumatic | of, pertaining to, or produced by a serious injury or shock to the body or wound, as from violence or an accident |
| Expel | To drive or force out or away; discharge or eject |