Long Walk to WaterVocab List 2

solemn

• Serious

aroma

• smell

Monotonous

• Dull/boring

• Someone with a monotonous voice sounds the same all the time

abundance

• A large amount

desperate

• Being in a hopeless situation; which is difficult to deal with.

endured

• To suffer patiently through something painful or difficult

relentless

• Harsh, Not letting up

arid

• dry

receding

• To go back from or further away; to make less

emaciated

• Abnormally thin or weak due to illness or lack of food

despair

• Feeling completely without hope

skittered

• To move quickly and lightly like a small animal

earnestly

• Seriously and honestly

plagued

• To continually bother, annoy, harass

• situation

peril

• danger