"The Great Stink" Vocabulary

Having many complicated or connected parts

• Intricate

• Organic

• Sanitation

• Putrid

A natural or chemical material that is added to soil to make it better for growing plants

• Sewage

• Fertilizer

• Sanitation

• Scorching

Extremely hot

• Organic

• Poverty

• Epidemics

• Scorching

Extremely unpleasant or foul

• Microscopic

• Sewage

• Putrid

• Sanitation

Widespread outbreaks of disease that spread quickly

• Sanitation

• Epidemics

• Organic

• Poverty

Too small to be seen without a microscope

• Microscopic

• Poverty

• Sanitation

• Organic

Waste carried away in sewers

• Sanitation

• Poverty

• Fertilizer

• Sewage

Ways of getting rid of waste and trash to keep places free of dirt and disease

• Fertilizer

• Sewage

• Sanitation

• Organic

The condition of being very poor

• Sewage

• Intricate

• Scorching

• Poverty

Coming from living things

• Fertilizer

• Sewage

• Putrid

• Organic