Unit 1: Genre Study 1 – Narrative Nonfiction

This list covers Into the Volcano and "Donna O'Meara: The Volcano Lady."
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  1. plummet
    drop sharply
    You're at risk of breaking through and plummeting into the molten lava below.
  2. exert
    put to use
    As magma rises from below, it exerts even more pressure on these shattered rocks.
  3. scald
    burn with a hot liquid or steam
    Huge explosions rocket the lava bombs higher and higher up into the scalding plume.
  4. shard
    a broken piece of a brittle artifact
    Blasts of steam blew some of the flowing lava into tiny shards of glass that pricked my bare arms like bee stings.
  5. pulverize
    make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
    Waves pulverize the lava into black sand, which washes ashore and creates a black sand beach.
  6. cascade
    rush down in big quantities
    An incandescent torrent of fiery lava cascaded from a gaping tube in the black cliff and poured furiously into the turquoise sea.
  7. documentation
    confirmation that some fact or statement is true
    They hope their documentation will someday be a written and visual record of information that helps scientists to better predict volcanic eruptions.
  8. dynamic
    characterized by action or forcefulness of personality
    She found out that volcanism is one of the most dynamic forces in nature.
  9. memoir
    an account of the author's personal experiences
  10. biography
    an account of the series of events making up a person's life
Created on Wed Nov 18 16:02:53 EST 2020 (updated Tue Nov 24 17:16:37 EST 2020)

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