Weather
Since Many Analogy Questions feature technical terms from Weather, which even students with strong general vocabulary, may not be aware of, this chapter gives such a list of words from Weather for the benefit of all the students.
Avalanche: large mass of snow moving rapidly down a mountain
Breeze: gentle wind
Blizzard: violent snow storm
Cirrus: wispy white cloud at high altitude
Cloudburst: sudden, intense rainfall
Cumulus: a dense, white, fluffy, flat based cloud with a multiple rounded top and well defined out line
Cyclone: violent, rotating wind storm
Deluge: heavy rain fall causing a flood
Dew: moisture condensed at night on surfaces of cool objects
Drizzle: Very light rain
Drought: prolonged period without rain
Eye: a calm region at the center of storm or cyclone or hurricane
Flux: continuous flow of water resulting in flood
Fog: thick moist
Frost: minute ice crystals that form on surfaces
Gale: moderate wind storm
Gust: sudden, sharp burst of wind
Hail: precipitation in the form of pellets of ice and hard snow
Hurricane: intense, violent, rotating wind storm or tropical cyclone at sea
Inundation: flood
Lava: molten rock that issues forth from the volcano
Maelstrom: powerful, turbulent whirlpool
Monsoon: seasonal wind storm that brings heavy rains to the Indian coast
Nimbus: rain cloud of uniform gray that covers the entire sky
Sleet: frozen or partly frozen rain
Smog: fog augmented by smog
Squall: sudden, violent windstorm accompanied by rain
Thunderbolt: lightning accompanied by thunder
Tornado: a rotating and moving column of air along with a funnel shaped cloud
Zephyr: gentle breeze from the west
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