If you comprehend something, you understand it.

What could help you comprehend a set of

instructions?

Something is pliable is easy to move or bend without breaking.

Why is it important for the bottom of a shoe to

be pliable?

To live in a solitary way is to be alone most of the time.

What is one activity that you prefer to do in a

solitary way?

To scan a place is to look carefully over the entire area for something specific.

Why might sailors scan the ocean and the sky?

A person or animal that is vulnerable is weak and unprotected and at risk of being harmed.

When might a small animal be vulnerable to predators?

If someone is exuberant, he or she is full of excitement, energy, and happiness.

How does an exuberant person act?

A mature person or animal is fully grown and behaves like an adult.

Which animal is mature, a colt or a bear?

When a person or an animal lumbers, it moves in a slow and clumsy way.

Which animal lumbers, a cat or a bear?

To encircle a place means to surround it.

What might encircle a castle?

If you nurture a living thing, you care for it while it is growing and developing.

What might a mother animal do to nurture its

baby?