| A | B |
|---|
| domestic | kept in the house or for the family's use |
| preserve | keep, still have |
| instincts | ways of acting that an animal or person can do without learning or thinking about |
| hamlet | a small village |
| atmosphere | the air |
| bomb shelter | a building or an underground cave made to keep people safe during a bomb explosion |
| deafening | loud enough to make you deaf or harm your hearing |
| collapsing | falling down |
| emerged | came out of |
| demolished | destroyed, broken |
| uprooted | torn out of the ground with the roots |
| casualties | injuries |
| relatively | fairly, mostly |
| hedge | a tall border of thick plants |
| unburied | not yet put under the ground |
| barricaded | covered, closed up |
| bonfire | a large fire |
| predators | animals that eat other animals or people |
| debris | remains of something broken, trash |
| hemmed in | surrounded by |
| half-demolished | partly destroyed |
| circumstances | the situation |
| beasts | animals |
| wakeful | unable to sleep |
| finance | pay for |
| regularity | evenness, in a regular pattern |
| enormity | very large size |
| nocturnal | awake and active at night; sleeping during the day |
| insecure | unsafe |
| unpredictable | unsure, impossible to know what to expect |
