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WW 5 List 15
WW 5-15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| disaster | something that causes great damage or harm |
| disastrous | causing much damage or harm |
| flee | to run away from danger or from something frightening |
| fracture | a crack or break, as in metal or bone |
| immense | great in size or extent; great in degree |
| intense | very strong, very great; showing great depth of feeling |
| intensity | great strength or force |
| investigate | to look into closely; to study in great detail |
| lurch | to move forward or to one side suddenly and unexpectedly; a jerking or swaying movement |
| major | great in size, number, or importance; a military officer; the main subject a student is studying |
| minor | small, unimportant; a person who is not yet an adult |
| petrify | to make rigid with terror; to terrify; to change into a stonelike substance |
| predict | to say what will happen before it takes place |
| prone | likely to do; lying face downward |
| sparse | thinly grown or spread; not crowded |
| topple | to push over; to fall over; to overthrow |
| urban | having to do with cities |