| A | B |
| wistfully | longingly; sadly remembering something |
| scrounging | looking for scraps of food or abandoned materials |
| acquaintance | knowing someone or something |
| excitable | very emotional; easily excited |
| eavesdropping | listening secretly to a conversation |
| sympathetically | in a way that shows concern for someone else's feelings |
| logical | reasonable; to be expected |
| compare | how things are alike |
| contrast | how things are different |
| conclusion | putting together what the author says and what you know |
| fantasy | an imaginative story |
| synonyms | words that mean the same |
| antonyms | words that are opposite |