| A | B |
| jittery | nervous |
| calamity | an event causing a great distress |
| serene | calm |
| levee | an embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river |
| fiance' | an man engaged to be married |
| peered | to look over and see |
| critical | at a point of crisis |
| incident | an event |
| converged | people coming together from different directions |
| composed | being in control of feelings |
| tattered | torn |
| unassuming | very modest or not arrogant |