| A | B |
| Sympathetically | Show concern or that you care |
| Logical | Makes sense, to be expected |
| Wistfully | Sadly remember happy things |
| Excitable | Easily excited |
| Scrounged | Look for something desperately |
| Acquaintance | Meet someone |
| Eavesdropping | Listen to someone without them knowing |
| Author's purpose | Reason the author wrote something |
| Drawing conclusions | Using what you and what you read to make a prediction |
| Main idea | What the story is mostly about |
| Evidence | Proof of something |