| A | B |
| Dismal | Depressing |
| Shrill | Piercing |
| Dialogue | Conversation |
| Haze | Foggy |
| communism | totalitarianism |
| exile | banishment |
| narrative | story |
| despot | tyrant |
| peasant | farmer |
| oppress | subdue; crush |
| paraphrase | reword |
| plagiarism | to take ideas from another |
| synthesis | summary of ideas |
| bibliography | a list of sources on a given subject |
| comely | of pleasing appearance |
| gaping | to stare with the mouth open |
| devour | to eat quickly a large amount of food |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| Operating System | Software that runs a computer |
| Screen Driver | Software that writes data to the computer screen |
| Startup Screen | Opening Screen when the computer is started |
| Icon | Symbol on the Computer screen that has a meaning |
| Scroll | Moves the data displayed on the computer screen |
| Unattainable | out of reach |
| accurate | precise |
| writhing | twisting and turning |
| analogy | comparison |
| fiction | imaginary; not real |
| supple | easily bent or twisted |
| clasped | hold onto tightly |
| shawl | oblong or square cloth worn as a covering for the head or shoulders |
| haste | quickly |
| isle | small island |
| reliable | dependable |
| seize | take by force |
| context | part of a sentence/paragraph/discourse that occur just before and after a word or passage & determine its exact meaning |
| sympathize | to feel sorry for another |
| Hyperlink | text or graphic that user click to go to a file |
| PowerPoint | presentation tool which enables users to create visuals for presentation |
| HTML | coding language used to create Hypertext documents |
| Web Site | collection of Web Pages with naviagation tools and a designed theme |
| URL | alphanumeric address where Web visitors locate a Web Site on the WWWeb |
| hard drive | disc storage on a computer |
| GIF | common format for image files |