1. Vocabulary Week 15 A Long Walk to Water
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2. Gingerly
Definition: Part of Speech: “It was worth it, Salve thought, as he touched his eye gingerly.”

3. Honeycomb
Definition: Part of Speech: “Nothing had ever tasted so good as those pieces of honeycomb dripping with deep luscious gold sweetness.”

4. 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.”

5. Strides
Definition: Part of Speech: “When they walked side by sides, their strides were exactly the same length.”

6. Inhabited
Definition: Part of Speech: “Their region was inhabited by large herds of antelope, wildebeest, gnus…”

7. Makeshift
Definition: Part of Speech: “They had no house and had to sleep in makeshift shelters.”

8. 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.”

9. Rebelled
Definition: Part of Speech: “After so many weeks of near-starvation, his stomach rebelled mightily..”

10. 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.”

11. Wailing
Definition: Part of Speech: My little brother was wailing for hours when his game boy broke.