| Term | Definition |
| disaster | something that causes great damage or harm |
| disatrous | causing much damage or harm |
| flee | to run away from danger or from something frightening |
| fled | past tense |
| fracture | a crack or break, as in metal or bone |
| fracture | to crack or break |
| immense | great in size or extent |
| immense | great in degree |
| intense | very strong; very great |
| intense | showing great depth of feeling |
| intensity | great strength or force |
| investigate | to look into closely; to study in great detail |
| lurch | to move forward or to one side suddenly and unexpectedly |
| lurch | a jerking or swaying movement |
| major | great in size, number, or importance |
| major | a military officer just above a captain in rank |
| major | the main subject a student is studying |
| major | to study as one's important subject |
| minor | small; unimportant |
| minor | a person who is not yet an adult |
| petrify | to make rigid with terror; to terrify |
| petrify | to change into a stonelike substance |
| predict | to say what will happen before it takes place |
| prediction | something that is predicted |
| prone | likely to have or to do |
| prone | lying face downward |
| sparse | thinly grown or spread |
| sparse | not crowded |
| topple | to fall or push over |
| topple | to overthrow |
| urban | having to do with cities |