| A | B |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |
| conscientious | meticulous, careful, marked by doing well according to conscience |
| indifferent | marked by a lack of interest |
| reminisce | look back upon; remember |
| untenable | not able to be defended or occupied |
| credible | believable; offering reasonable grounds for being believed |
| dissipated | having been driven off, scattered; vanished |
| emaciated | appearance of having lost flesh; very thin |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or unimaginary |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment; a delay of punishment |