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Vocabulary Week 15A Long Walk to Water

Name:

Date:

Subject/Period:Slide2

Gingerly Definition:

Part of Speech:

“It was worth it, Salve thought, as he touched his eye

gingerly.”Slide3

Honeycomb

Definition:

Part of Speech:

“Nothing had ever tasted so good as those pieces of

honeycomb

dripping with deep luscious gold sweetness.”Slide4

Accent

Definition:

Part of Speech:

“The boy spoke

Dinka

but with a different

accent

, which meant that he was not from the are around

Salva’s

village.”Slide5

Strides

Definition:

Part of Speech:

“When they walked side by sides, their

strides

were exactly the same length.”Slide6

Inhabited

Definition:

Part of Speech:

“Their region was

inhabited

by large herds of antelope, wildebeest, gnus…”Slide7

Makeshift

Definition:

Part of Speech:

“They had no house and had to sleep in

makeshift

shelters.”Slide8

Solemn

Definition:

Part of Speech:

His face became very

solemn

when

Salva

told him that he had not seen nor heard a single work of his family in all that time.”Slide9

Rebelled

Definition:

Part of Speech:

“After so many weeks of near-starvation, his stomach

rebelled

mightily..”Slide10

Nausea

Definition:

Part of Speech:

“At one point

Salva

found himself in a line of half a dozen people, all in an identical pose-bent over, holding their stomachs, and waiting for the next wave of

nausea

.”Slide11

Wailing Definition:

Part of Speech:

My little brother was

wailing

for hours when his game boy broke.