Vocabulary

• dam up: To block or obstruct with a dam.
• hold up to: To withstand or endure something unpleasant or difficult.
• rush out: To leave a place quickly or suddenly.
• all at once: Suddenly; at the same time
• at once: Immediately; without delay
• at the end of the day: Ultimately; when everything else is considered.
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• episode: One separate event in a series of events
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• devastating: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• infrastructure: Basic necessary equipment for a country or region
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• catastrophic: Causing a lot of damage or suffering
• barrier: Difficult situation preventing something happening
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• pile: Large amount of something
• disaster: State of extreme ruin and misfortune
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• huge: Very very large
• debris: Remains of something broken or destroyed
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• tragedy: Play that has a sad ending with many deaths
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• emergency: Sudden event needing an immediate action
• soil: Conditions in which something develops
• rush: To attack someone suddenly in a group
• scary: Causing fear; frightening
• rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
• bury: To put something into the ground and cover it
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• loose: To shoot or fire something from a gun
• flow: To move steadily and easily in a certain direction
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• block: Solid piece of material used for building
• remind: To cause someone to remember what they forgot
• monitor: To observe and keep a record of something
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• part: Division of a book
• service: Work that a person does to assist others
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• disappear: To no longer see because it's not there any more
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• reservoir: A lake storing water for use by the community
• dangerous: Involving the chance of hurt or damage; risky
• seep: To flow slowly through small openings or pores
• landslide: Slide of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
• provincial: People living out of a main city
• creek: Water channel that is smaller than a river
• cubic: Measurement of the length, width, and height
• farmland: Rural area where farming is practiced
• downstream: In the direction of a stream's current