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encounters with a Tornado !
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Word
guide :
board:
plank of wood -
cone: a rounded
pyramidal form -
deafening: very
loud indeed (it can make you deaf) -
dirt track:
a road with no hard surface -
fade:
diminish, disappear -
get going:
leave, depart, start -
give up:
abandon -
gust: a violent
movement of the wind -
hailstones:
small balls of ice -
hang around:
stay -
hindsight: retrospect -
inky:
like ink, very dark -
into gear:
gears come between the engine to the wheels -
make
one's way: go -
make the journey:
come, travel -
materialize:
become real, appear -
quad bikes:
four-wheeled motor scooters -
rough:
violent, dangerous -
run out of:
come to the end of, have no more of -
run:
to manage, to own, to operate -
set off:
move away -
shelter: protection
-
slate gray: almost black (gray
US = grey GB) -
sped:past tense
of to speed, go very fast -
spot:
see -
spring: a mechanism that
absorbs bumps and jolts -
struck:past
tense of to strike, to hit -
suck:
pull -
we'd had it: we were in
serious danger -
windshield:
front window of a car -
wound: past tense
of to wind, twist, turn -
wreck:
destroy -
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