Salva
Nya
Vocabulary
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100
Two of the dangers of crossing the Gilo River.
What are crocodiles, currents/torrents, soldiers shooting at you?
100
This is the reason you need water to find water.
What is water must be flowing constantly into the borehole to keep the drill running smoothly.
100
Danger
What is peril?
100
Fog; mist
What is haze?
100
The boys chosen to leave the refugee camp and go to America were called this.
What is The Lost Boys?
200
The two things Salva learns from Michael, the Irish aid worker.
What is volleyball and how to read/write English?
200
When water first shoots out of the borehole, Nya is not excited for this reason.
What is the water is full of mud?
200
Far away from others; remote
What is isolated?
200
Becoming thin and tattered with age
What is threadbare?
200
Salva's father's illness was caused by this.
What is contaminated water?
300
Two of the three reasons a boy might be chosen to go to America.
What is: orphaned; healthy; never been a soldier in the rebel army?
300
The villagers are clearing the land beyond the second tree to build this.
What is a school?
300
Caused continual distress or trouble to
What is plagued?
300
Main branch of a tree
What is bough?
300
Great surprise
What is astonishment?
400
It was difficult for Salva to reconnect with his father for this reason.
What is: no way to communicate with the clinic his father is at; had to get permits/fill out forms to travel; organize flights and car transportation to a remote area
400
These people raised the money for the well to be dug in Nya's village.
What is the Elm Street School in America?
400
Shaking involuntarily, typically because of excitement
What is trembling?
400
In a serious manner
What is earnestly?
400
Cause to become confused
What is bewildering?
500
It has been this long since Salva and his father have seen one another.
What is 19 years?
500
Nya did not realize the boss of the workers in her village was Dinka earlier in the story for this reason.
What is he did not have the Dinka tribal scars on his face?
500
Filled with something unpleasant.
What is riddled?
500
Moved in a slow, heavy, awkward way.
What is lumbered?
500
The two Dinka traditions mentioned in Chapter 17.
What is sprinkling water on someone's head, blessing someone who was lost and found again? What is killing a cow to mourn the death of a loved one?
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