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Vocabulario 1

Electric - system that works with electricity.

The principal activities involved here include electric and electronic equipment and clothing

Operate - procedure of some task.

Credit-rating agencies should operate in a more transparent way.

Storm chasing - person who searches for storms.

Well, like with any subculture, storm chasing attracts a variety of distinct personality types.

Precautions - be cautions.

Effective advance warnings are a part of these precautions.

Terrified - Causing terror or intense fear.

Everybody's terrified the first time.

Relieved -Remove a person or thing from the weight that is loaded on it.

Those provisions had greatly relieved overcrowding.

Wind - is the flow of gases on a large scale.

Twelve transmission line towers damaged by wind were repaired.

Wave - are waves that travel across the surface of seas, oceans, rivers, lakes, channels, etc.

Renewable resources such as wind, waves, salinity and tides are variable by nature.

Tsunami - is a complex event that involves a group of high-energy waves of varying size that occur when an extraordinary phenomenon vertically displaces a large body of water.

No catastrophic earthquake or tsunami has destroyed southern Europe’s productive capacity.

Thunder - is the sound of the shock wave caused when a beam instantly heats the air through which it moves between clouds.

The thunder from the fireworks was awesome

Hurricane - it is a stormy system characterized by a closed circulation around a center of low pressure and that produces strong winds.

The weather in the eye of a hurricane can be very calm.

Earthqueake - is the movement of the earth.

The earthquake registered 8.1 On the Richter scale.

Clouds - is a gas in the sky.

The clouds are heavy with rain.

Predict - Announce or say what is to happen through divination, science or the assumption.

Mathematical models are employed to calculate propellant usage and predict remaining reserves.

Thrill - Action and result of feeling or feeling.

The bittersweet thrill of high school popularity.

Sighting - Examine one thing carefully.

Crime Stoppers just got another Josh sighting.

Worried - person who has uneasiness or fear.

I was worried about job security.

Scared - Showing fear for something sudden and unexpected.

Now, little Firebird was scared.

Puzzled - That is confused or hesitant.

I must confess myself to be puzzled as well.

Weather condition - It is the state of the weather.

The optimal weather condition which prevailed in 1996 extended into the first quarter of 1997.

Volcanic eruption - It is a violent emission on the earth's surface of materials from the interior of the volcano.

The volcanic eruption in Iceland should be a warning to all of us.

Tornado - is a mass of air with high angular velocity whose lower end is in contact with the surface of the Earth and the upper one with a cumulonimbus cloud or, exceptionally, with the base of a cumulus cloud.

The safest place in a house during a tornado is the basement.

Smoke - it is a practice where a substance is burned and then smoke is tested or inhaled.

The rug caught fire and now my house is full of smoke.

Flood - is the occupation by water of areas that are usually free of this, by overflowing rivers, torrents or ramblas, torrential rains, thaw, etc.

The sun poured a flood of light down the crater.

Dust storm - es un fenómeno meteorológico común en el desierto del Sahara de África septentrional.

We covered our faces with bandanas so we could breathe in the dust storm.

Avalanche - it is the displacement of the snow layer downwards, which can incorporate part of the substrate and the vegetation cover of the slope.

We scaled rocks that crumbled behind us, collapsing in enormous sections with the hollow rumble of an avalanche.