Im pretty sure that its b word order and choice
For the first part
1. Nice kind
2. Shut close
3. Happy jolly
4. Hope wish
5. Cold chilly
6. Pair couple
7. Boat ship
The root word for conversation is converse.
"Most children brought up in Brooklyn before the First World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the day children went around “ragamuffin” or “slamming gates,” wearing costumes topped off by a penny mask." This evokes a sense of time and place because of the diction it uses. It tells us that it was before WW1 on Thanksgiving.