aRMed and DanGErouS

Vocabulary:

• werewolf: someone, who in stories, changes into a wolf at the time of full moon
• folklore: the traditional local stories and culture of a group of people
  which creatures exist in the mythology or folklore of your country?
• portray: to represent or describe someone or something in a painting
  how are animals often portrayed in cartoons and in films for children?
• yacht: a boat with sails and sometimes with engine, used for racing or travelling
  the yacht was anchored 200 metres off the Queensland coast.
• nauseous: feeling as if you might vomit
  i suddenly came over very nauseous.
• agonising: causing extreme physical or mental pain
  Within minutes he was in agonizing pain, vomiting and struggling to breathe.
• vomit: throw up
  he came home drunk and vomited all over the kitchen floor
• vicious: describes people or actions that show an intention to hurt someone or something very badly
  He had been stung by a vicious creature named after an aboriginal tribe.
• tribe: group of people, often of related families
  a tribe of Indians
• tentacle: one of the long thin parts like arms of some sea creatures
  their transparent bodies are covered from head to tentacle tip in stinger cells.
• harpoon: a long heavy spear fixed to a rope used for killing whales
• venomous/venom: poisonous/poison
• barb: the sharp part which points backwards from a fish hook, making it hard to remove it from something
• brutish: rough, unpleasant and often violent; describes guys causing troubles based on physical strength.
  he was lucky not to have brushed up against it, a brutish creature the size of a birthday cake with sixty sting-encrusted tentacle.
• flat: completely or to the greatest degree possible
  it can kill a grown man in three minutes flat.
• rattle: to make a noise like a series of knocks
  rattled by bad publicity, the tourist industry has been pouring money into box jellyfish research. 
• plough: to dig land with a plough
  in fact, it looks as though they have been plough a separate evolutionary furrow since the Pre-Cambrian period.
  plough one's furrow: follow a course of actions in which one is isolated or in which one can act independently
• teeming: many, plenty
  the sea is teeming with unknown species.
• cursory: quick and not detailed
  even a cursory survey has revealed more than a dozen underscribed ones.
• dim-witted: not intelligent
• voracious: very eager for something, very hungry
  one simple fact underlies this behaviour: box jellyfish are voracious predators.
• predator versus prey
• cuboid: a solid object with six rectangular sides
• lethal: deadly
  their predatory eating habits also explain why they have such lethal toxins.
• stalk: follow
• flimsy: easily broken or thin
  it's one thing to stalk fish, but how do you catch them when all you have are flimsy, rubbery tentacles?
• confine: to limit an activity in some way
  it was thought to be confined to northern Australian waters.
• bout: period
  he was lucky to have a short bout -- it only took twenty hours for him to stop feeling like he was going to die.