| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | phrase where all words begin with the same sound |
| anxious | feeling nervous or afraid |
| banks | land that forms the river’s edges |
| boulder | a large and rounded rock |
| canyon | a deep valley with steep walls on both sides which was formed by running water |
| certain | sure to occur |
| clung | held tightly to |
| fiction | invented story |
| horizon | the line where the earth and sky appear to meet. |
| ledge | a flat space like a shelf on the sides of cliffs |
| lugged | dragged or hauled with great difficulty |
| mammal | a warm-blooded animal that feeds its young milk |
| marine | having to do with the ocean |
| noun | the part of speech that is a person or place or thing |
| rapids | a group of small waterfalls in a river where the water flows very fast |
| remote | far away |
| rustled | made a soft fluttering or crackling sound |
| scrawny | thin and bony |
| sculpture | a piece of art made from wood or stone or metal or another solid |
| sheer | very steep |
| souvenir | something that you keep to remind you of a person or a place or an event |
| triumph | a great success or victory |
| twig | small branch of a tree or shrub |
| valley | an area of lowland between hills |
| waded | made one's way with difficulty as in water |
| wilderness | a wild and natural area of land where no humans live |
