| A | B |
| lurk | to hide in or about a place |
| trudged | walked or marched steadily with great effort |
| surface | to rise to the top of any liquid |
| plight | a bad condition or situation |
| invincible | impossible to defeat |
| ordeal | a stressful time or event |
| blowhole | nostrils on the top of a whale's head |
| ice-breaker | a ship used to break a channel through ice |
| Inuit | people native to the Arctic |
| whale | the world's largest animal |
| fluke | a whale's tail |
| Siku | the largest Gray whale in the story |