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pull my leg |
make a joke - I thought he was pullin' my leg |
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far-fetched |
unbelievable - I guess it's not so far-fetched considering we live on a major fault line. |
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major fault line |
a fault line is an area where a lot of earthquakes happen |
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due east |
exactly east of someplace - The earthquake he said was due east of San Jose |
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obviously |
in the way that can be easily seen or understood |
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epicenter |
the middle of an earthquake - So he was obviously a lot closer to the epicenter than we were |
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all of the sudden |
right away with no warning |
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afterwards |
later |
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heater |
a device for warming the air or water |
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aware (n, adj) |
knowing that something exist - I wasn't even aware it was an earthquake while it was happening |
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rattle |
a noise consisting of quickly repeated knocks - There was all this rattling |
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aftershock |
an earthquake that happens right after an earthquake |
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it dawned on me |
i remembered or realized |
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totally |
definitely |
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it's a given |
there is no doubt - When you live here it's a given that you're gonna experience earthquakes |
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perspective |
what someone thinks about something |
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take place |
to happen - Earthquake was taking place in San Francisco |
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TV coverage |
a job, writing or reporting a subject for TV or radio |
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rundown |
information - I wanted to get a rundown on what happened |
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cut out |
no longer able to be seen - All of the sudden the TV coverage cut out |
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weed through |
to look or dig through - They were trying to weed through the rubble of these buildings that had been coming down |
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rubble |
broken wood, stones |
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sway |
to move slowly from side to side - The building is swaying |
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a dime a dozen |
very common - Earthquakes are like a dime a dozen in Japan |
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absorb |
to take into liquid - They've built a lot of buildings to absorb the shock |
