| A | B |
| pension | money you get in old age - when you retire |
| perpetuate | to keep going |
| persevere & enhance | to hang in there & add to something/make it better |
| persistent | you keep at it, keep trying |
| pessimism | skeptical, not sure something will happen |
| polio | a disease which affects a person's bones - makes it difficult to walk, robs the body of calcium |
| reappraisal | to think about something again, to reevaluate |
| regimentation | military, strict, to do by habit the same way |
| reissue | to give again |
| restore | to make new to repair |
| root | the base the starting point |
| scrupulous | careful, painstaking, meticulous |
| soothe | calm |
| sternly | strict |
| subservient | to be below someone like a slave |
| subsidy subsidies | money given by the Government to help someone |
| task | job |
| underprivileged | needy people, poor people who don't have what the average person has |
| unique | special |
| voluntary action | you choose to do something .. you're not forced to do it |