| A | B |
| conscience | a regard for fairness, justice, goodness |
| laundromat | a self service place to do one's laundry |
| persuade | to move by argument or some other way to believe or do |
| pagan | one who has little or no religion |
| dismal | showing or causing gloom or depression--dismally gray |
| pedestal | the base of an upright structure |
| mental telepathy | apparent communication from one mind to another |
| stonemason | a person who builds with stone |
| Renaissance | a period of great intellectual or artist growth |
| impatience | lack of patience; restless or short of temper |
| vendor | a place for selling things to people |
| emerge | come out into view |
| unglamorous | not attractive or exciting |
| humility | to be humble; not proud or haughty or arrogant |
| accumulate | to gather or pile up |
| fussiness | to require or give close attention to |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |