| A | B |
| abdomen | encloses the stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, and pancreas; the belly |
| welts | bumps on the skin caused sometimes by an allergic reaction |
| gut cherries/chokecherries | a very bitter, dark red to nearly black fruit that made Brian very sick |
| quills | sharp hollow spines of a porcupine |
| imbedded | deposited, or stuck, in a partly enclosing mass |
| granite | a very hard type of rock |
| exasperation | extreme annoyance or anger; frustration; irritation |
| depression | a low area; a hollow place |
| eddied | to have moved in a current, as of water or air, moving in the opposite direction of the main current; especially in a circular motion |
| bluff | a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion |