| A | B |
|---|
| recurrent | to happen again and again |
| theme | a lesson that can be learned from a story |
| Resonate | to fill with sound or emotion |
| hobo | a person who traveled around looking for work |
| ironic | using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
| "In his listening his heart opened wide and then wider still" | to think of others more than you think of yourself |
| constellation | a group of stars |
| insistent | keeps insisting that a particular thing should be done |
| Loathed | really disliked or hated |
| Obliged | to do something to please someone else or to be grateful for something someone does |
| soggy | to be wet |
| prevailed | to gain influence or be accepted |
| hobbled | to cause to limp |
| Personification | a strategy that authors use to make nonhuman things human |
| fantasy | something imagined or not real |
| investment | to give money, in hopes that you will get more back |
| Contrary | opposite |
| contrarian | a person who does the opposite |
| Expect | to think something is likely |
| Expectancy | the feeling of hope that something good will happen |
