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We have come across words like ‘gale’ and ‘storm’ in the account. Here are two more words for ‘storm’: typhoon, cyclone. How many words does your language have for ‘storm’?

My mother tongue is Bengali. And there are innumerable words in my language for a storm. They are Jhor, bristi etc.

NOTE- Use any word that is the synonym for storm in your own language and write it here. Answers can be different.


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