Vocabulary #7

In the movie The Painted Veil, it depicts how life was like living in a cholera endemic region.

Parrots cannot actually conversationally talk as thought to be, instead they mimic the articulation of people's words.





Recently, I have been hearing ads on the radio that our California water system may eventually go through a period of dearth if we do not limit the amount of water we use.






Though some might see the Berlin Wall constructed in East Germany as a bulwark against foreigners and westerners, it was anything but that. It was used to keep the communistic population inside the easter Germany premises.






The baby, who was born prematurely, was not able to inchoate thus having the baby stay at the hospital for one month.

Definitions:
scuttlebutt - A cask on a ship used to hold the day's supply of drinking water
bulwark - a wall of earth or other material built for defense
hubris - excessive pride or self-confidence
dearth - famine; an inadequate supply
deference - respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another
emulate - to try to equal or excel
imitate -to mimic; impersonate
mimic - to be an imitation of
endemic - Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people
aborigine - one of the original or earliest known inhabitants of a country or region.
inchoate - not yet completed or fully developed
precursor - One that precedes another
volatile - tending or threatening to break out into open violence