All terms in this list:

thicket:

strike: verb
To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
To hit.

match:

repulsive: tending to rouse aversion or to repulse

fence: A thin, human-constructed barrier which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.

lie: To be in a horizontal position.

stagger: In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.

crawl: To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

gaze: To stare intently or earnestly.

slope: An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

compass: A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).

shepherd: A person who tends sheep.

sheep: A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis. Male: ram (intact), wether (castrated). Female: ewe. Young: lamb. Carnal: lamb (youth), mutton (adult).

board: To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.

borrow: To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

soap: A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically.

climb: To mount; to move upwards on.

van: A (covered) vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck.

life belt: A buoyant inflatable ring carried onboard ships which can be thrown to someone in the water in an emergency to keep themselves afloat.