| A | B |
|---|
| luxury | something not needed, usually rare and expensive |
| toil | hard work |
| docile | easy to train; calm |
| puny | small and weak |
| immigrant | person who moves from one country to settle in another |
| improvising | to make up the melody while playing music |
| instinct | natural ability |
| coax | convince someone to do something |
| compassion | feeling for someone and doing something to help them |
| imperceptible | unable to be seen |
| remnants | pieces or parts of something |
| lax | laid back |
| contempt | feeling anger toward someone |
| debris | litter or garbage left around |
| foreclosed | to take away someones home for not paying the mortgage |
| begrudge | envy or resent the good fortune of someone else |
| skeptical | doubting |
| ingenuity | creativity |
| strenuous | physically hard labor |
| venomous | bitter, angry words |
| notorious | known for badness or wickedness |
| counterfeit | fake |
| despair | extreme sadness |
| discard | to throw away |
| gestured | to motion with a hand or nod of the head |
| remorse | to feel sorry for something you have done |
| dilapidated | run down; in disrepair |
| frail | weak; ill |
| recuperated | recovered from an illness |
| repress | to hold in your emotions |
