Vocabulary: Mariner: sailor

Desperate: to want something very much ex: desperate for water

Survive: to live after you were close to die

Ritual: daily routine

Precious: valuable

Yawning: opening the mouth widely as you want to sleep ex: I was so tired, I couldn't help
yawning.

Rubbing: ex: She yawned and rubbed her eyes sleepily.

Tie: to fasten ex: I tie my hair back when it's hot.

Carthen: earthen

Brass: metal/ copper ex: it is made of brass.

Jingle: to move back and forth making sound

Impatient/ patient

Reed: a material/ a thin piece of wood. Ex: Old houses were used to be made of reed.

Dwelling: Dwell: to live in a place or in a particular way

Probably= may be

Monsoon: the season of heavy rain

Toba: like a lake

Squirt: to force a liquid to flow out through a narrow opening

Chador: veil

Scum: a layer of unpleasant or unwanted material that has formed on the top of a liquid

Filter: to make clean

Impurities: dirty things

Horizon: the line at the farthest place that you can see, where the sky seems to touch the land
or sea

Trickle: to flow slowly

Preserve: keep

Dwindle: to become smaller in size or amount, or fewer in number

Ex: Her hopes of success in the race dwindled last night

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