| A | B |
|---|
| grave | very serious and worrying |
| maligned | spoken ill of |
| credulity | tendency to believe too readily |
| furtively | secretively; sneakily; stealthy |
| apathy | lack of interest or emotion |
| oppressive | causing great discomfort; distressting |
| talisman | good luck charm |
| aghast | horrified |
| avaricious | greedy |
| inaudible | impossible to hear |
| plot | a the sequence of events in a story. |
| conflict | the struggle between opposing forces and follows a pattern |
| exposition | background on the characters and the situation |
| rising action | events that intensify the conflict |
| climax | Highest point of the story tension at which outcome of conflict is revealed |
| falling action | events following climax |
| resolution | remaining issues resolved; conclusions or insights revealed by narrator |
| foreshadowing | details that hint at upcoming events |
| flashback | an interruption in the plot to describe an action of the past |
| prediction | a logical idea about what will happen |
