| A | B |
| disaster | something that causes great damage or harm |
| disastrous | causing much damage or harm |
| flee | to run away from danger or something frightening |
| fracture | a crack or break or to crack or break something |
| immense | great in size or extent |
| intense | very strong or very great |
| intensity | great strength or force |
| investigate | to look into closely, to study |
| lurch | to move forward or to one side suddenly |
| lurch | a jerking or swaying movement |
| major | great in size, number or importance |
| major | a military officer |
| major | the main subject a college student is studying |
| minor | small, unimportant |
| minor | a person not yet an adult, still a child |
| petrify | to make rigid with terror |
| petrify | to change into a stonelike substance |
| predict | to say what will happen before it takes place |
| prone | likely to have or to do |
| prone | lying face down |
| sparse | thinly grown or spread |
| sparse | not crowded |
| topple | to fall or push over |
| topple | to overthrow as in a government |
| urban | having to do with cities |