A Long Walk to Water Vocabulary 9 and 10

“Each minute of walking in that arid heat felt like an hour.”

• dry, without moisture

• humid and sweaty

• miserable

• never ending

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"His lips became cracked and parched.”

• sunburnt

• blistered

• dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlinght

• thirsty

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

1. "There was neither wisp of cloud nor whiff of breeze for relief.”

• crying

• easing of a burden or distress

• never ending pain

• severe, harsh

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“Salva lifted his head, the sobs interrupted by surprise.”

• cheers

• coughing fits

• loud weeping

• yelling

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“The friend answered in the same language, but as he walked back toward the group, he translated for the chief...”

• wrote things down

• turned from one language to another

• restored to life

• cried

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“Vultures would find the bodies and strip them of their rotting flesh until only the bones remained.”

• various large birds of prey

• dead bodies

• rodents

• type of lion

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“Like a miracle, the small amounts of water revived them.”

• to make sweaty

• made them cry

• made them hungry

• restore to life

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“By the end of the day, they would be out of the desert, and after that, it would not be far to the Itang refugee camp in Ethiopia.”

• restoring life

• to turn from one language into another

• to ease a burden or a stress

• a shelter from persons displaced by war or political oppression or religious beliefs

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“He felt sick at the thought of those men - first dying in such a horrible way, and then having even their corpses ravaged.”

• a large bird of prey

• groups of people

• dead bodies

• severe, harsh

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“He took out a tamarind and handed it to Salva.”

• peanuts

• the fruit of a tropical Asian evergreen tree

• piece of honeycomb

• slice of meat

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4