Vocabulary Words for Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 1-4

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1. To coax rice out of the stubborn land, the fields had to be flooded with water.

2. Ba seemed to drop his gray and work weariness – his black eyes sparkled like raindrops in the sun when he began a story.

3. She was very proud of her power and of the reverence the people of earth paid her.

4. They became the four great rivers of the land, stopping the drought of and death of all those on earth.

5. It was planting season, which was especially grueling.

6. Minli’s knees shook from weariness.

7. But seeing her parents patiently working, backs bent, made her swallow her complaints and continue.

8. The goldfish man’s cart was full of bowls of flashing fish that glittered like jewels.

9. Ma said, looking at the plain rice in her bowl with bitterness.

10. Ma said, and her chopsticks struck the inside of her empty rice bowl resentfully.