Nouns denoting natural events
- vicissitude
- a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
- karma
- (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
- slackening
- an occurrence of control or strength weakening
- diffusion
- the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another
- shoo-in
- an easy victory
- cocktail party
- an afternoon party at which cocktails are served
- repetition
- an event that repeats
- lightning
- the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
- hassle
- an angry disturbance
- riptide
- a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore
- augmentation
- the amount by which something increases
- abiotrophy
- a loss of vitality and a degeneration of cells and tissues not due to any apparent injury
- appearance
- the event of coming into sight
- collapse
- a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
- the Great Starvation
- a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
- home stand
- a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court
- white horse
- a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white
- extermination
- complete annihilation
- blend
- an occurrence of thorough mixing
- outrage
- a disgraceful event
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