WorksheetsA Long Walk to Water Vocabulary 9 and 10
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
“Each minute of walking in that arid heat felt like an hour.”
dry, without moisture
humid and sweaty
miserable
never ending
"His lips became cracked and parched.”
sunburnt
blistered
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlinght
thirsty
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
“Salva lifted his head, the sobs interrupted by surprise.”
cheers
coughing fits
loud weeping
yelling
“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
“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
“Like a miracle, the small amounts of water revived them.”
to make sweaty
made them cry
made them hungry
restore to life
“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
“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
“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
