| A | B |
| credit | Belief (to give credit to a story), good reputation. |
| credible | Something that is believable. |
| creed | A system of belief. |
| pathological | Relating to or caused by disease. |
| sympathy | Sharing another person's sorrow. |
| empathy | Understanding of another person's feelings. |
| monologue | A speech delivered by one person. |
| logorrhea | Excessive use of words. |
| lexicon | A dictionary. |
| sophisticated | Having worldly knowledge. |
| sophomore | A second year student at a high school or college. |
| philosophy | Love and pursuit of wisdom. |
| xenophile | Someone attracted to that which is strange. |
| xenophobe | Someone afraid of strangers or foerign people. |
| xenobiotic | Something foreign to the human body. |
| retract | To draw back or in. |
| revive | To bring back to life. |
| retire | To withdraw, to rest. |