Wordly Wise 3000 Book 2 Lesson 15

Front 1

disaster

Back 1

n. something that causes great damage or harm

Front 2

disastrous

Back 2

adj. causing much damage or harm

Front 3

flee

Back 3

to run away from danger or from something frightening

Front 4

fled

Back 4

past tense of flee

Front 5

fracture

Back 5

n. a crack or break, as in metal or bone

v. to crack or break

Front 6

immense

Back 6

adj. great in size or extend

adj. great in degree

Front 7

intense

Back 7

adj. very strong; very great

adj. showing great depth of feeling

Front 8

intensity

Back 8

n. great strength or force

Front 9

investigate

Back 9

v. to look into closely; to study in great detail

Front 10

lurch

Back 10

v. to move forward or to one side suddenly and unexpectedly

n. a jerking or swaying movement

Front 11

major

Back 11

adj. great in size, number or importance

n. a military officer just above a captain in rank

n. the main subject a student is studying

v. to study as one's most important subject

Front 12

minor

Back 12

adj. small; unimportant

n. a person who is not yet an adult; a child

Front 13

petrify

Back 13

v. to make rigid with terror; to terrify

v. to change into a stonelike substance

Front 14

predict

Back 14

v. to say what will happen before it takes place

Front 15

prediction

Back 15

n. somthing that is predicted

Front 16

prone

Back 16

adj. likely to have or do

adj. lying face downward

Front 17

sparse

Back 17

adj. thinly grown or spread

adj. not crowded

Front 18

topple

Back 18

v. to fall or push over

v. to overthrow

Front 19

urban

Back 19

adj. having to do with cities