| A | B |
| Appetite | the desire to eat |
| barely | just enough with nothing to spare |
| bounding | to grip with or as if with the hands or claws |
| clutching | fastened by or as if by hands. |
| greedily | 1. having a strong desire for food or drink 2. having or showing a selfish desire for wealth and possessions |
| hedges | a dense row of shrubs or low trees |
| motioning | to signal by a movement or gesture to direct by a motion |
| scraping | to grate harshly over or against |
| shrugged | to raise or draw in the shoulders especially to express aloofness, indifference or uncertainty |
| steering wheel | a handwheel by means of which one steers |
| thumping | to strike or beat with or as if with something thick or heavy makes a dull sound |
| version | an account or description from a particular point of view |
| wailing | to make a sound suggestive of a mournful cry |