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remarkable unusual or special and therefore surprising and worthmentioning

stunning extremely beautiful or attractive

shocking offensive or upsetting

cruel extremely unkind and unpleasant and causing pain to people or animals
intentionally

incredible impossible, or very difficult, to believe

Volcanic eruption When a volcano erupts, it explodes and flames and rocks come out of it

Ash what is left of something after it has been destroyed by fire,

Expedition an organized journey for a particular purpose

Graveyard a place, often next to a church, where dead people are buried

Evolution the way in which living things change and develop over millions of years

Evolve to develop gradually, or to cause something or someone to develop

gradually

Characteristic a typical or noticeable quality of someone or something

Scatter to (cause to) move far apart in different directions

Realize to understand a situation

Retrace to go back over something, for example a path

Remains pieces or parts of something that continue to exist when most of it has
been used, destroyed, or taken away

Pit a large hole in the ground, or a slightly low area in any surface

Predator an animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals

Mammal any animal of which the female feeds her young on milk from her own
body

Discovery the process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for

the first time, or the thing that is found

Unfold to open or spread out something that has been folded

prove to show a particular result after a period of time

 Extinct not now existing

extinction a situation in which something no longer exists

Take over to begin to have control of something

Reveal to make known or show something that is surprising or that was

previously secret

Develop to (cause something to) grow or change into a more advanced, larger, or
stronger form

Habit something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without

knowing that you are doing it

earthquake a sudden violent movement of the earth's surface, sometimes causing

great damage

tornado a strong, dangerous wind that forms itself into an upside-down

spinning cone and is able to destroy buildings as it moves across the
ground

explosion the fact of something such as a bomb exploding

Flood to cause to fill or become covered with water, especially in a way that
causes problems

Cyclone a violent tropical storm or wind in which the air moves very fast in a
circular direction

Hurricane a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the

West Atlantic Ocean

War armed fighting between two or more countries or groups

Oil spills an accident in which oil has come out of a ship and causedpollution

Avalanche a large amount of ice, snow, and rock falling quickly down the side of a
mountain

Drought a long period when there is little or no rain

Experience If you experience something, it happens to you, or you feelit

Plague any seriousdisease that kills many people

Disaster great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty

Get over to accept an unpleasant fact or situation after dealing with it for a while
Broke out If something dangerous or unpleasant breaks out, it suddenly starts

Account a written or spoken description of an event

Terrible very unpleasant or serious

Fatal very serious and having an important bad effect in the future

Dismal sad and without hope

Spectacle an unusual or unexpected event or situation that attractsattention,

interest, or disapproval

Flames a stream of hot, burning gas from something on fire

Astonished very surprised

Dreadful very bad, of very low quality, or shocking and very sad

Calamitous Disastrous, tragic

Shelter to protect yourself from bad weather, danger, or attack

Erecting to raise something to a vertical position

Mysterious strange, not known, or not understood

Blow up When a storm blows up, it begins.

Gap an empty space or opening in the middle of something or between two

things

Slow down to be less active and relax more

Dried up If a river, lake, etc. dries up, the water in it disappears or ends

Ruin to spoil or destroy something completely

Gloomy unhappy and without hope

Laid waste to completely destroy something

Disastrous extremely bad or unsuccessful

Face If you face a problem, or a problem faces you, you have to deal with it

awful extremely bad or unpleasant

Distracted nervous or confused because you are worried about something

Attempt to try to do something, especially something difficult

Break down If a machine or vehicle breaks down, it stops working: Our car
broke down and we had to push it off the road.
 Break up If a marriage breaks up or two people in a romanticrelationship
break up, their marriage or their relationshipends: Jenny and George
have broken up.

Break off to separate a part from a larger piece, or to become separate: He

broke off a piece of chocolate.

Break through to force yourself through something that is holding you back

Break into to suddenly begin to do something: He felt so happy that he broke into
song

Break out If something dangerous or unpleasant breaks out, it suddenly starts: War
broke out in 1914.

Break down barriers to improve understanding and communication between people who
have different opinions

Be worth it to be important or interesting enough to receive a particularaction

Solo alone; without other people

Navigator a person in a vehicle who decides the direction in which the vehicle
travels

Attend to go to an event, place, etc.

Confident having confidence

Daring brave and taking risks

Adventurous willing to try new or difficult things, exciting and danferous

Capable able to do things effectively and skilfully, and to achieveresults

Disappear If people or things disappear, they go somewhere where they cannot be

seen or found

Transatlantic crossing the Atlantic ocean, or relating to countries on both sides of the
Atlantic Ocean

Average typical and usual

Go against the odds If you do or achieve something against (all) the odds/against all odds,
you do or achieve it although there were a lot of problems and you were
not likely to succeed: Against all the odds, he recovered.

Persistent lasting for a long time or difficult to get rid of

 Someone who is persistent continues doing something or tries to do
something in a determined but often unreasonable way

Perceive to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about

something

Interrupt to stop a person from speaking for a short period by something you say
or do to stop a person from speaking for a short period by something
you say or do

Satisfied with pleased because you have got what you wanted, or because something
has happened in the way that you wanted

achievements something very good and difficult that you have succeeded in doing