| A | B |
| anticipation | looking forward to; expectation |
| continent | one of the seven great land masses on Earth |
| convergence | act or process of meeting at a point |
| depart | to go away; leave |
| forbidding | causing fear or dislike; looking dangerous or unpleasant |
| heaves | rises; rises and falls altenatively |
| icebergs | large masses of ice detached from glaciers and floating in the sea |
| abundance | much more than enough |
| main idea | the most important idea from a story or paragraph |
| details | small pieces of information that tell more about the main idea |
| journal | record of thoughts and events that are inportant to the writer |