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rising water vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anthropologist | Someone who studies what makes us human. |
| peril | exposure to the risk of being injured, destroyed, or lost. |
| undocumented | Immigrants without legal status. |
| interlinked | joined or connected together, with the parts that are joined often having an effect on each other. |
| entice | to lure or tempt someone by promising them something that they like. |
| porous | Full of tiny openings. |
| monsoon | a shift in winds that often causes a very rainy season or a very dry season. |
| scudding | To move swiftly |
| inundated | overwhelmed. |
| amphibious | relating to or adapted for both land and water |
| regulate | to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc |
| niche | a position particularly suitable for the person occupying it |
| marshalled | past simple and past participle of marshal. |
| stalactites | A stalactite is a mineral formation that hangs from the ceiling of caves, hot springs, or man-made structures such as bridges and mines. |
| junction | a place or point where two or more things meet or converge. |