| A | B |
|---|
| purchase | An effective hold or position for applying power in moving or raising a heavy object; leverage. |
| tributary | A stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water. |
| billows | Any surging mass. |
| engulfed | Swallowed up in or as if in a gulf. |
| sodden | Soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated. |
| propagate | To cause to increase in number or amount. |
| dappled | Having spots of a different shade, tone, or color from the background; mottled. |
| gnarled | Full of or covered with gnarls; bent; twisted. |
| grotesquely | In an odd or unnatural shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarrely. |
| aperture | An opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc. |
| whorls | Anything shaped like a coil. |
| rapt | Deeply engrossed or absorbed. |
| plunder | To take wrongfully, as by pillage, robbery, or fraud. |
| encroaching | Advancing beyond proper, established, or usual limits; making gradual inroads. |
| moorings | The means by which a ship, boat, or aircraft is held in place. |
