| A | B |
| humanitarian | having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people |
| intensified | to make intense or more intense |
| extremists | a person who goes to extremes, especially in political matters |
| lashing | to beat violently or sharply against |
| inland | the interior part of a country |
| triggered | to initiate or precipitate, a chain of events |
| uninhabitable | not capable of being lived in |
| landfall | an approach to or sighting of land |
| fluctuated | to change continually; shift back and forth |
| sustained | to keep up or keep going, as an action or process |
| tropical | pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics |