Vocabulary

• call for: To demand, need or require (an action or thing)
• sit down: To take a seat
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• strike: To hit something
• catastrophic: Causing a lot of damage or suffering
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• alert: Being aware and able to respond quickly
• toll: Sound that a big bell makes, when it is rung
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• tense: The use of grammar to state the time things happen
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• glimpse: To see or notice something very briefly
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• silence: State of being quiet and not talking for a time
• rush: To attack someone suddenly in a group
• rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
• bury: To put something into the ground and cover it
• countless: Being too many to be numbered or imagined
• instruction: A command for someone formally to do something
• bare: Lacking contents; empty
• anguish: Great suffering caused by pain, worry, unhappiness
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• volunteer: Working willingly without pay to help others
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• person: Man, woman or child
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• specialist: Person who works in one specific area or field
• clinic: Local medical center; department of a hospital
• rubble: Rough, broken stones from destroyed building
• northern: In or toward the north
• radar: Radio device used to find the location of objects
• vista: View as seen between rows of trees, buildings, etc.
• crowbar: Iron bar or hook, to force things open