"She woke up to Lupe's whimpering and an atrocious smell." Atrocious means -

They passed miles of naked grapevines, stripped of their harvest and bereft of their leaves. Bereft means -

"No," said the doctor, "It isn't contagious." Contagious means -

"She bent over her work, intent..." Intent means -

"But Mama was listless and Esperanza often found her weeping in silence." Listless means -

"...and no amount of beating could remove their [blankets] musty smell." Musty means -

"Her fingers were more nimble now and her stitches more even." Nimble means -

"The wind stopped, but the dust still swirled as is propelled by its own power." Propelled means -

"The camp routine repeated itself like the regimented rows in the the fields." Regimented means -

"... [She] repeated what was becoming a nightly ritual of silent tears." Ritual means -

"A roil of brown loomed over the mountains." Roil means -