| impatient | unwillingness to wait |
| despair | loss of hope |
| succeed | to complete |
| frontier | edge of an unknown land |
| determination | decided action |
| cautiously | carefully |
| supply | to give what is needed |
| appeal | to ask for |
| supervise | to watch over |
| settlers | pioneers in a new area |
| assure | to make confident |
| stunned | shocked |
| opportunities | chances to do something |
| demonstration | public display |