Chernobyl - the nuclear catastrophe

vocabulary revision


WARNING many lists are of dubious usefulness. Vocabulary should be learnt in context. What follows is just a quick revision list and is no substitute for careful dictionary work and your own notetaking.

Match the key words with their definitions:


1. unprecedented
2. lid
3. gravity
4. debris
5. lingering
6. radiant
7. gear
8. skull
9. fluid
10. lethal
11. wheelbarrow
12. lead
13. shovel
14. trash heap
15. stove
a. seriousness
b. very bright
c. the first of its kind
d. lasting a long time
e. top of a container
f. the main bone in the head
g. equipment
h. device with a wheel for carrying heavy things in a garden or on a building site
i. pile of rubbish, garbage
j. spade - tool for digging
k. cooker
l. very dense metal
m. liquid
n. certain to cause death
o. bits of a destroyed building, for instance



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