Chapters 10 - 12 Vocabulary Quiz (A Long Walk to Water)

Ravaged means:

• wrecked or plundered

• very thin

• extreme disorder or confusion

People went around stealing and __ the village.

• ravaged

• translated

• looting

• stagger

Nya's uncle __ what the man was saying from the language of the Nuer.

• receding

• translated

• chaos

• stagger

When Salva's group was told to leave the camp, there was __ among the people because they did not know where they were going to go.

• grudgingly

• receding

• emaciated

• chaos

The man was __ and very thin after not eating for weeks.

• emaciated

• stagger

• looting

• chaos

To do something in a way that shows unwillingness:

• translated

• chaos

• stagger

• grudgingly

They noticed the desert __ as they continued to walk.

• emaciated

• looting

• ravaged

• receding

Define stagger:

• retreating or withdrawing

• plundering and pillaging

• to move unsteady from side to side