| A | B |
| disaster | something that causes great damage |
| disastrous | causing much damage |
| flee | run quickly from danger |
| fracture-n. | a crack or break in a bone |
| fracture-v. | to crack or break |
| immense | great in size, extent, degree |
| intense | very strong, showing great feeling |
| intensity | great strength or force |
| investigate | to study in detail |
| lurch | a jerk or sudden movement |
| major | great in size, number, importance |
| major | main subject of study in college |
| major | a military rank above captain |
| minor | small, unimportant or a child |
| petrify | to terrify, to make rigid with fear |
| petrified | changed to stone |
| predict | to say what will happen in the future |
| prediction | something that is thought will happen |
| prone | likely to do, lying face down |
| sparse | thinly grown, not crowded |
| topple | to fall or push over, to overthrow |
| urban | having to do with cities |