island
| a piece of land completely surrounded by water
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isle
| a word for an island, used in poetry or in names of islands: the British Isles
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peninsula
| a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large mass of land
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mainland
| the main area of land that forms a country, as compared to islands near it that are also part of that country
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coast
| the area where the land meets the sea
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off the coast
| in the sea near the land
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latitude
| the distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees
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mild
| not to cold or wet, and sometimes pleasantly warm
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temperate/moderate
| a type of weather that is never very hot or very cold
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extreme n
| something that goes beyond normal limits, so that it seems very unusual and unacceptable
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rainfall
| the amount of rain that falls on an area in a particular period of time
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spell n
| a period of a particular kind of activity, weather etc, usually a short period: sunny spell
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shower
| a short period of rain or snow
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gale
| a very strong wind
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