Flood: Wrestling the Mississippi Vocabulary

change from a gas to a liquid

• condense

• allergies

• crested

• levees

artificial embankments for preventing flooding

• allergies

• levees

• floodplain

• tributary

Having felt an emotion of fear, respect and wonder

• eruption

• forecast

• awed

• yearned

flowing or passing slowly through small openings

• allergies

• levees

• moisture

• seeping

small, slender, biting flies found worldwide

• crested

• mosquitoes

• volcanic

• floodplain

felt a deep longing or desire

• awed

• humidity

• yearned

• forecast

Predict or suggest what will likely happen

• humidity

• atmosphere

• forecast

• eruption

artificial lakes where water is collected for use

• reservoirs

• floodplain

• levees

• atmosphere

hypersensitivity to a substance which produces a strong reaction from the person's body

• mosquitoes

• steadily

• condense

• allergies

the amount of moisture in the air

• atmosphere

• eruption

• humidity

• volcanic