"America's Deadliest Disaster" Vocabulary

absurd

• ridiculous

• mean

• obnoxious

• funny

churning

• calm

• opposite

• swirling or moving violently

• running in place

debris

• materials that have been made into something else

• recycled plastic

• objects found in the ocean

• pieces of something that has been destroyed

devouring

• chewing slowly and carefully

• biting in a hard way

• eating in a fast and hungry way

• swallowing without chewing

immigrants

• people moving to a new country

• people traveling by boat

• people traveling by train

• moving into a new house down the street

prediction

• an opinion on a topic

• the conclusion to a story

• statements about what you think is likely to happen in the future

• medicine prescribed by a doctor

prone

• a type of fruit

• easily insulted

• contagious

• especially at risk for or likely to be affected by

reclaim

• to get back

• to go after

• to make matters worse

• to give away

surge

• an earthquake

• a type of thunder

• a sudden large and powerful movement, often created by water

• leftover materials found after a storm

transforming

• to stay the exact same

• identical

• to act in a different way

• changing