Vocabulary

• at least: As a minimum
• in quick succession: Happening one after another rapidly.
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• save as: To store a file using a new name or format.
• search for: To try to find someone or something.
• beyond belief: Too improbable to be believed; incredible.
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• devastating: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• infrastructure: Basic necessary equipment for a country or region
• immediately: Without any delay; straight away
• unprecedented: Not having happened before, or to such a degree
• encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
• strike: To hit something
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
• collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• toll: Sound that a big bell makes, when it is rung
• intensity: Great energy, strength, or concentration
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• disaster: State of extreme ruin and misfortune
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• turmoil: Very confused situation where things are not clear
• pour: To fill a person's glass or cup with a drink
• witness: To see the signing of an official document
• aid: To help others and provide things
• blow: To move something using air
• declare: To make a statement in a strong and confident way
• film: Thin layer that covers something
• agency: Business that provides some service for others
• belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• destruction: Act of destroying; damaging beyond repair
• century: Period of 100 years
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• staff: Employees of a company
• unfold: (Of a situation) to be told or revealed
• zone: Area of space designated for a particular use
• humanitarian: Person who tries to help those in a crisis
• predecessor: Something that comes before another in a series
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• suspend: To hang something or someone from something
• epicenter: Point directly above the focus of an earthquake
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• succession: Act of officially taking over someone's position
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• seismic: Of earthquakes
• reel: To wind something in on a reel; pull something in
• rubble: Rough, broken stones from destroyed building
• abduct: To take away by force, usually to get money