| A | B |
|---|
| dwindle | to become less and less; to decrease; to shrink |
| susceptible | easily influenced or affected; unresistant; sensitive and impressionable |
| wary | on guard against danger or deception; cautious; suspicious |
| retract | to draw back or in; to withdraw; to take back; to recant |
| surpass | to excel; to go beyond the limit of |
| nonchalant | apparently unconcerned or uninterested; casually indifferent |
| elapsed | to slip away or to pass (as with time) |
| exasperates | to irritate or annoy greatly |
| agility | an ability to move quickly and easily; keenness and liveliness; quickness |
| veneer | a thin layer of valuable wood put over other wood; an outwardly attractive appearance that hides what is underneath |
