| A | B |
| cautious | careful |
| concentrate | give one's full attention to |
| discomfort | feeling of uneasiness |
| dismayed | troubled; distressed |
| excitement | a state of activity or agitation |
| immobile | unable to move |
| stamina | the power to resist fatigue |
| terrified | frightened |
| unsure | not certain |
| pitches | steep slopes |
| futile | hopeless |
| scrabbling | struggling |
| gully | a deep ditch cut into eath by running water |
| plowed | made one's way steadily and with effort |
| ascending | going upward |
| reassured | caused to feel secure again |
| enclose | to surround |
| grudges | deep feelings of resentment |
| monstrous | huge; enormous |
| receding | moving away from |
| redirect | change the course of |
| engulfed | swallowed up or overwhelmed by something |
| eroded | worn away |
| boundaries | edges; borders |
| upright | in a vertical position |
| momentum | the force or speed that an object has when it moves |
| maneuver | a planned movement |
| refugees | people who flee in seach of protection or shelter |
| repositioning | changing the location or placement of something |