| A | B |
| crocodile | 1 a : any of several large carnivorous thick-skinned long-bodied aquatic reptiles (family Crocodilidae) of tropical and subtropical waters; broadly : |
| driveway | : a private road giving access from a public way to a building on abutting grounds |
| occupy | 1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of Aesop or his fables |
| hyphen | : a punctuation mark - used especially to divide or to compound words, word elements, or numbers |
| airtight | 1 : impermeable to air or nearly so |
| disclose | 1 obsolete : to open up |
| approach | 1 a : to draw closer to : NEAR b : to come very near to : be almost the same as <its mathematics approaches mysticism -- Theodore Sturgeon> <as the quantity x approaches zero> |
| swallowed | 1 : to take through the mouth and esophagus into the stomach |
| hollow | an unfilled space |
| dignified | showing or expressing dignity |
| pantonime | : an ancient Roman dramatic performance featuring a solo dancer and a narrative chorus b : any of various dramatic or dancing performances in which a story is told by expressive bodily or facial movements of the performers c : a British theatrical entertainment of the Christmas season based on a nursery tale and featuring topical songs, tableaux, and dances |
| python | of various large constricting snakes (as a boa); especially : any of the large oviparous snakes (subfamily Pythoninae of the family Boidae) of Africa, Asia, Australia, and adjacent islands that include some of the largest existing snakes |
| paralyze | : to affect with paralysis |
| nightingale | any of several Old World thrushes (genus Erithacus and especially E. megarhynchos) noted for the sweet usually nocturnal song of the male; also : any of various other birds that sing at night |
| postpone | : to put off to a later time : DEFER |
| oppose | : to place opposite or against something |
| charcoal | : a dark or black porous carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances (as from wood by charring in a kiln from which air is excluded) |
| owner | a : to have or hold as property : POSSESS b : to have power over : CONTROL <wanted to own his own life> |
| marshmallow | 1 : a pink-flowered European perennial herb (Althaea officinalis) of the mallow family that is naturalized in the eastern U.S. and has a mucilaginous root sometimes used in confectionery and in medicine |
| coyote | : a buff-gray to reddish gray No. American canid (Canis latrans) closely related to but smaller than the wolf |