Wordly Wise Book 5 Lesson 17

to bring or cause pain

• afflict

• primitive

• famine

not fruitful or reproducing

• drought

• barren

• refuge

to be made up of, to contain

• consist

• expand

• oasis

a long period without rain

• drought

• revert

• famine

to wear away bit by bit

• pasture

• erode

• fertile

to make or become larger; to give further details of

• oasis

• barren

• expand

widespread and long-lasting shortage of food that may cause starving

• revert

• famine

• teem

able to produce good crops or able to produce offspring

• fertile

• primitive

• wither

a place where water is found in an otherwise dry area

• teem

• wither

• oasis

a field of growing grass where animals can eat

• pasture

• barren

• afflict