| Term | Definition |
|---|
| anticipate | (v) to expect, to sense something before it happen, foresee |
| anticipation | (n) act of anticipating |
| anticipatory | (adj) adjective form of "anticipate" |
| catastrophic | (adj) extremely harmful, causing financial or physical ruin |
| catastrophe | (n) noun form of "catastrophic" |
| catastrophically | (adv) adverb form of "catastrophic" |
| collide | (v) to come together with great or violent force |
| collision | (n) act of colliding |
| eruption | (n) a sudden, often violent, outburst (often followed by an "of" phrase) |
| erupt | (v) verb form of "eruption" |
| famine | severe hunger, a drastic food shortage |
| flood | (v,n) an overflowing of water, an excessive amount |
| impact | (v,n) a strong influence (often followed by "on" or "of") |
| persevere (in doing something, with) | (v) to keep going, despite obstacle or discouragement, to maintain a purpose |
| persist | (v) persevere, hang on, hold on, stay, remain, endure |
| persistent | (adj) patient, insistent |
| plunge | (v,n) to go down suddenly, to decrease by a great amount in a short time (often followed by an "into" phrase) |
| unleash | (v) to release a thing or an emotion |
| come into collision with | to collide someone |
| lobster | (n) tôm hùm |
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