Vocabulary

• snow in: To be trapped inside due to heavy snowfall blocking exits.
• at least: As a minimum
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
• remote: Being far away from people, towns, etc.
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• leave: To go away from; depart
• depth: Distance below a surface
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• minister: An official who heads a government department
• public: Owned by the government
• deploy: To put into position (often a military operation)
• suspend: To hang something or someone from something
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• caution: Quality of being cautious; avoiding risk, danger
• reportedly: According to information heard from some sources
• instruct: To command someone formally to do something
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• transport: Very strong uncontrollable emotion, e.g. delight
• powerful: Having control or influence over
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• usual: Being the way things occur most of the time
• dead: Not alive
• local: Bus or train, that stops at most stations
• northern: In or toward the north
• injure: To do (usually physical) harm or damage to
• close: Almost; near
• removal: Act of getting rid of something completely
• western: Movies often about cowboys in the American West
• large: Big; of great size; broad, tall, wide, or fat
• heavy: Greater in amount, degree, or severity than usual