Benchmark Advance Unit 8 Vocabulary

an area of land surrounded by water

• adore

• comfort

• island

• genius

a powerful and destructive storm that starts in the ocean and has very strong winds and rain

• unpredictable

• hurricane

• crinkled

• adore

to love or admire someone very much

• adore

• astonishment

• crinkled

• paradise

the feeling of being very surprised

• paradise

• genius

• astonishment

• hurricane

to have formed small, thin lines on the top

• crinkled

• genius

• unpredictable

• island

a person that is smart or talented at a very high level

• paradise

• crinkled

• adore

• genius

a very beautiful and pleasant place that seems to perfect

• comfort

• genius

• island

• paradise

to cause someone to feel less worried or frightened

• adore

• comfort

• genius

• paradise

not being able to know what is going to happen or what is going to be done

• unpredictable

• astonishment

• paradise

• island

The ___________ caused a lot of flooding and fallen trees.

• adore

• hurricane

• crinkled

• island