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"Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans" by Don Brown, List 3

Mon Jul 14 15:54:47 EDT 2025
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This acclaimed nonfiction book tells the story of Hurricane Katrina in graphic form.

This list covers vocabulary from pages 49–93.

Here are links to our lists for the work: List 1, List 2, List 3

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smother
We [are] just in there smothering.
remote
People rescued from the water, from buildings and homes, are dropped off on remote bits of high ground.
aide
The President's aides complain that gloomy TV news reports contradict information they are receiving from New Orleans.
gloomy
The President's aides complain that gloomy TV news reports contradict information they are receiving from New Orleans.
taper
The storm surge tapers away, making the level of the lake fall.
havoc
While heading back to the White House from a Texas vacation, President Bush flies low over New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to glimpse the havoc.
efficient
Within days, Texas provides efficient care to more than 220,000 Katrina evacuees.
frail
Scores of sick, frail, and elderly people swamp emergency medical clinics.
makeshift
Many are still strapped to doors used as makeshift stretchers.
viscous
The floodwaters are now filthy and viscous and smell of petroleum.
petroleum
The floodwaters are now filthy and viscous and smell of petroleum.
waft
Smoke from several fires wafts through the city center.
rubble
Rubble and garbage are everywhere; piled up, it would be two hundred times bigger than Egypt's Great Pyramid.
squalid
Young soldiers, some of whom have suffered the same squalid conditions of the evacuees, help old people board the buses.
swamp
It stops fifteen-foot-high waves from swamping the city during Hurricane Isaac in 2012.

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