A Long Walk To Water (VOCABULARY)

Arid

• weapons for discharging missiles; a branch of an army

  armed with missiles

• a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

• people settled far from their ancestral homelands; the movement, migration or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland

• excessively dry; having insufficient rainfall to support agriculture; parched

Artillery

• weapons for discharging missiles; a branch of an army

  armed with missiles

• a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

• people settled far from their ancestral homelands; the movement, migration or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland

• excessively dry; having insufficient rainfall to support agriculture; parched

Civil War

• weapons for discharging missiles; a branch of an army

  armed with missiles

• a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

• people settled far from their ancestral homelands; the movement, migration or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland

• excessively dry; having insufficient rainfall to support agriculture; parched

Diaspora

• weapons for discharging missiles; a branch of an army

  armed with missiles

• a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

• people settled far from their ancestral homelands; the movement, migration or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland

• excessively dry; having insufficient rainfall to support agriculture; parched

Emaciated

• the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

• a person promoting human welfare and social reform; philanthropist

• to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin; to make feeble

• the movement by people from one place to another with the intention of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location

Genocide

• the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

• a person promoting human welfare and social reform; philanthropist

• to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin; to make feeble

• the movement by people from one place to another with the intention of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location

Human migration

• the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

• a person promoting human welfare and social reform; philanthropist

• to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin; to make feeble

• the movement by people from one place to another with the intention of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location

Humanitarian

• the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

• a person promoting human welfare and social reform; philanthropist

• to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin; to make feeble

• the movement by people from one place to another with the intention of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location

Immigrant

• a body of citizens organized for military service; a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in an Emergency

• a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence; a plant or animal that becomes established in an area where it was previously unknown

• continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition; steadfastness

• resemblance; correspondence; the quality or state of being parallel

Militia

• a body of citizens organized for military service; a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in an Emergency

• a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence; a plant or animal that becomes established in an area where it was previously unknown

• continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition; steadfastness

• resemblance; correspondence; the quality or state of being parallel