1. Vocabulary Words McBroom the Rainmaker regard regard merciful merciful predict predict accurate accurate drought drought prairie prairie desperately desperately sowing sowing heaved heaved dispositions dispositions

2. regard – n. thought or care

3. merciful – adj. kind or forgiving

4. predict – v. to tell beforehand

5. accurate – adj. – correct; exact

6. drought – n. period of time when there is very little rain or no rain at all

7. prairie – n. a large area of level or rolling land with grass and few or no trees

8. desperately – adv. hopelessly

9. sowing – v. planting

10. heaved – v. past tense of heave: to make a sound with a lot of effort or strain

11. dispositions – n. plural of disposition: a natural way of acting; mood

12. Fill in the blank! Yesterday morning, I was ______ the carrot seeds. Some people have no ______ for the truth. Only dried mud remained in the riverbed as a result of the long ______. In math class, we have to make sure our answers are ______. Some early pioneers crossed the ______, while others stopped to farm the land.

13. Fill in the blank! My parents were ______ after I apologized for breaking the rules. I wish I could ______ the future and know what I will be doing in ten years. Jen ______ the boxes up three flights of stairs to her new apartment. She ______ wanted to know if her best friend was accepted into Harvard University. I love going to Mr. Smith’s class because he is always in a good ______.