| A | B |
| disaster | something that causes great damage or harm |
| flee | to run away from danger or something frightening |
| fracture | to break or crack |
| immense | great in size or extent |
| immense | great in degree |
| intense | very strong; very great |
| intense | showing great depth of feeling |
| investigate | to study in great detail |
| investigate | to look into closely |
| lurch | to move forward or to one side suddenly |
| major | great in size, number, or importance |
| major | militiary officer just above a captain |
| major | the main subject |
| minor | small; unimportant |
| minor | a person who is not yet an adult |
| petrify | to terrify |
| petrify | to change into a stonelike substance |
| predict | to say what will happen before it takes place |
| prone | likely to have or do |
| prone | lying face downward |
| sparse | thinly grown or spread |
| sparse | not crowded |
| topple | to fall or push over |
| topple | to overthrow |
| urban | having to do with cities |