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To speak about disasters, you need the appropriate vocabulary. Part 5
Monster - an imaginary creature usually having human and animal parts;
Myth - a traditional story serving to explain a world view;
Science - ability to produce solutions in some problem domain;
Scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of empirical fields;
Sink - fall or descend to a lower place or level;
Boat - a small vessel for travel on water;
Uproot - move forcibly from a homeland into a new foreign environment;
Fate - the ultimate agency predetermining the course of events;
Impoverish - make poor;
Zap - a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact;
Oil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water;
Spill - flow, run or fall out and become lost;
Cataclysm - a sudden violent change in the earth's surface;
Bermuda - a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast;
Bermuda Triangle - an area in the western Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes are supposed to have been mysteriously lost.
Examples:
Did you read about Bermuda Triangle last week?
There are many myths about monsters.
He warned that the breakdown of the family unit would lead to an impoverished society.
These countries are on the brink of cataclysmic famine.
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