Long Walk to Water Vocabulary Chapters 7-9

the line where the earth or sea seems to meet the sky

• Canoe

• Horizon

• Rose

• Entrenched

a container made from the hard, dry skin of a gourd fruit. They are often used to carry water or for decoration.

• Worm-Rotten

• Gourd

• Ritual

• Artillery

a formal ceremony or series of acts that is always performed in the same way

• Scrub

• Terrain

• Ritual

• Stands

to move suddenly because you are afraid of being hit or hurt; to show fear : to hesitate from doing something unpleasant or dangerous

• Flinched

• Dehydration

• Horizon

• Rose

• Stunted

something that is doubtful or unknown

• Flinched

• Sorghum

• Luscious

• Horizon

• Uncertainty

large guns that are used to shoot over a great distance

• Canoe

• Grueling

• Artillery

• Grueling

• Scrub

to move upward, to become higher

• Rose

• Stunted

• Flinched

• Horizon

• Grueling

to place something in a very strong position that cannot easily be changed

• Entrenched

• Stunted

• Rose

• Dehydration

• Worm-Rotten

something that is very difficult; requiring great effort.

• Luscious

• Grueling

• Stunted

• Dehydration

to lose too much water; a harmful reduction in the amount of water in the body.

• Grueling

• Dehydration

• Entrenched

• Uncertainty