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| English | Disasters |
| ordeal | painful experience or struggle |
| aftermath | bad result or consequence of something |
| earthquake | sudden violent movements of the earth's surface |
| fault line | point where different earth plate's meet |
| shake | to make quick repeated movements back and forth |
| shook | past tense of shake |
| shaken | past participle of shake |
| tremble | to shake a little |
| seismograph | machine that measures Earth's movements |
| warning | a danger sign |
| predict | to say what will happen in the future |
| mudslide | falling of a dirt hillside after rain has turned it soft |
| avalanche | sudden breaking away of snow or rocks down a mountain |
| bury | to cover up or hide in the ground |
| sweep | to move forcefully & quickly over or through something |
| swept | past tense & past participle of sweep |
| injure | to hurt or cause damage |
| injury | a wound or damage |
| escape | to get away from |
| collapse | to lose strength & fall down or fall into ruin |
| affect | to change or influence |
| tragedy | a sad event or disaster |
| death toll | the number of people who die in an event |
| victim | someone or something that suffers from a bad event |
| casualty | person hurt or killed in a bad event |
| survivor | person who lives through a life-threatening event |
| suffer | to experience pain or loss |
| devastate | to destroy completely |
| devastation | complete destruction or ruin |
| severe | very strong or serious or dangerous |
| major | main or most important |
| minor | unimportant or small |
| tornado | violent winds that twist in a circular motion |
| hurricane | large & violent wind & rain storm |
| tsunami | tidal wave |
| tidal wave | gigantic wave that floods the coastline |
| flash flood | sudden covering of dry land by water |
| torrent | violent flood usually of water |
| torrential | relating to a violent flood of water |
| downpour | sudden heavy rain |
| recede | to move back |
| drown | to die by breathing in water or other liquid |
| gale | a strong wind |
| gust | a sudden strong wind |
| lava | hot liquid volcanic rock |
| ash | powdery substance left after something has burned |
| erupt | to explode |
| eruption | an explosion |
| famine | a serious lack of food |
| starve | to feel pain or die from lack of food |
| starvation | the state of having no food or being seriously hungry |
