A Long Walk to Water Vocabulary 7 and 8

"Uncle spoke to him all morning in a steady, low voice."

• uneven

• firm, even, regular

• boring and dull

• the bow of a boat

"He kept himself awake by counting the strokes of Uncle’s paddle and trying to gauge how far the canoe traveled with every twenty strokes."

• tall reeds

• transport

• measure

• rate

“So Salva’s father ferried the mangoes home by wedging them into the spokes of his bicycle wheels.”

• transported, carried

• trimmed and peeled

• mailed

• extreme

1. “Some people were cutting down the tall papyrus grass by the water’s edge.”

• trees

• wet and muddy

• stalks of tall grass

• a tall, aquatic plant natve to the Nile valley.

1. “The scenery and motion were so monotonous that Salva might have slept...”

• colorful

• boring, repetitive

• exciting

• unusual

“Salva watched, fascinated, as little by little the curve of a prow and low sides grew from the piles of reeds.”

• back

• middle

• bow, or front

• bottom

“As a special treat, his father sometimes bought mangoes.”

• a yellow fleshed fruit

• an oblong sweet fruit of a tropical tree

• a type of berry

• candy

“...Salva slapped and waved at them in desperate frustration all night long.”

• extreme

• transported

• unexplained

• hidden

"Salva staggered forward with another load of reeds in his arms.”

• tall aquatic plant native to the Nile valley

• the oblong sweet fruit of a tropical tree

• stalks of various tall perennial grasses

• a type of wood