Culture Corner

3. armed forces
8. to become stronger
9. to force liquid to flow in a certain direction
10. an area of calm weather at the centre of a tropical storm
14. gradual improvement
17. the people who live in a place
18. people who work for the army to build roads and bridges
20. a non-permanent state when the government takes special measures to deal with a dangerous situation
21. to make the people in an area leave because of an emergency

1. to state publicly
2. to have difficulty handling a situation
4. behaviour intended to harm or kill people
5. the fire, police and ambulance services
6. a sudden powerful movement of water or wind created by a storm
7. lower than the surface of the sea
11. (v): to break violently
12. large scale action of stealing from stores and houses that people have left
13. to come onto the land from the sea
15. being in a very bad situation
16. an embankment for preventing flooding
19. to build again