| A | B |
| enthusiasm | excitement about doing something |
| responsibility | something you should do |
| valuable | is worth something; precious |
| worthless | not valuable |
| survive | to stay alive |
| imagine | to think about something that is not there |
| sparkle | to shine; give off light |
| tremble | to shake (because, cold, fear or excitement) |
| crumble | to fall apart into little pieces |
| ordinary | normal; usual; nothing special |
| wealthy | rich; having a lot of money |
| fade | to gradually (little by little) lose brightness |
| shrink | to become smaller |
| astonished | surprised |
| conceited | arrogant; thinking too highly of yourself |
| eager | really wanting (to do something) |
| wrinkled | creased (lines older people have in their skin) |
| reply | to answer |
| reputation | what people think about you |
| tragedy | a terrible event |
| ignorant | not knowing |
| starve | to be dying of hunger |
| ruin | to destroy |
| blame | to hold someone responsible (to say something is another person's fault) |
| recognize | to see and remember from the past |
| impatient | no wanting to wait |
| apologize | to say sorry |
| concentrate | to focus |
| pretend | to make believe; to act like something is true when it isn't |