LW Chapters 8-10 Vocabulary

persistent

• intermittent
• temporary
• determined; continuing, existing, or acting for a long or longer than usual time

• transient

avalanche

• hurricane
• a large mass of snow and ice or of earth and rock sliding down a mountainside

• tsunami
• earthquake

precise

• exact

• unknown

• estimate

• vague

desperation

• hope
• contentment
• a loss of hope and surrender to misery or dread

• satisfaction

quivered

• laughed
• steady

• trembled
• frozen

hesitation

• Distract
• Relax
• Ignore
• pause