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Book 5 · Pre-middle school
Chapter 15 · List 15 · Earthquakes & shaking
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disaster (n)
A sudden very harmful event.
fault (n)
A defect; responsibility; a crack in rock.
flee (v)
To run away from danger.
fracture (n / v)
A break or crack; to break.
immense (adj)
Very large.
intense (adj)
Very strong; extreme.
lurch (v / n)
To move with sudden uneven motion; a sudden jerk.
magnitude (n)
Great size; importance.
petrify (v)
To turn to stone; to frighten.
predict (v)
To say what will happen ahead of time.
prone (adj)
Lying face down; inclined to.
rubble (n)
Broken pieces left from a building's collapse.
sparse (adj)
Thinly scattered.
topple (v)
To fall over.
tremor (n)
A trembling; a slight earthquake.