Vocabulary

• stroke of luck: A sudden and unexpected piece of good fortune.
• back down: To admit you were wrong; stop claiming
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• in addition to: Besides; as well as
• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• phenomenon: Unusual event, fact that can be studied
• effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
• barely: Only just; just possible
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• claim: To say that something is true, often without proof.
• amount: Quantity of something
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• stroke: When blood cannot get to brain, causing damage
• gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
• establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• disaster: State of extreme ruin and misfortune
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• debris: Remains of something broken or destroyed
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• shallow: Not deep; short from top to bottom
• shore: Land along the edge of a sea, lake or river
• drag: To reluctantly move or go somewhere
• destructive: Causing a very large amount of damage
• route: Way to get from one place to another place; path
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• harbor: Area of water protected by land and used by ships
• invasion: Entry into a place to cause harm
• countless: Being too many to be numbered or imagined
• depth: Distance below a surface
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• withdraw: To take money out of a bank account
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• communication: Talking to people; giving information to people
• drown: To kill something by putting it under water
• surpass: To go beyond or achieve more than someone
• ripple: Small gentle low wave on the surface of water, etc.
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• tide: Way opinions or events are developing or changing
• tsunami: Huge sea wave often caused by an earthquake
• halfway: A middle point between two extremes
• gravitational: Concerning the force of gravity
• submarine: Ship that travels above and below the sea
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• tectonic: Denoting or relating to construction or building
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• nature: Person's character or particular way of behaving
• believe: To think or accept that something is true
• crest: Showy part growing from the top of a bird's head
• seismic: Of earthquakes
• outward: Going away from a place that will be returned to
• volcanic: (E.g. of a temperament) easily angered; violent
• divert: To attract someone's attention from something
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• usual: Being the way things occur most of the time
• landslide: Slide of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
• tidal: Of the regular rise and fall of the sea level
• wrath: (Literary) extreme and sometimes violent anger
• move: To cause someone to have certain emotions
• save: To make your computer keep a file
• trough: Long open container for feeding farm animals
• underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water
• bc: Before Christ; used after dates/years