All terms in this list:

condemn: to express a strong feeling against something

endure: to deal with or carry on despite hardships

indignities: insulting treatment

forsake: to give up something or someone

architect: person who designs buildings

cicadas: large insects also called locusts

beckoned: signaled to come closer

buffet: to strike with force

envy: jealousy

well-being: good physical and mental condition

nutrition: how living things get food

unique: having no like or equal

abandoned: given up or left behind

grudgingly: unhappy

distress: pain

adopt: to accept or put into affect

individuality: qualities that make one person or thing different from another

grief: unhappiness or suffering

stranded: left helpless in a difficult place

sheared: cut off sharply

kin: family

tended: cared for

coincidence: situation in which 2 events that seem unrelated happen at the same time

dismay: feeling of unpleasantness

muster: to find and gather together

withdrawn: shy or quiet

vile: unpleasant

sharecropper: farmer who works the land owned by someone else

acquired: obtained, got, recieved

drone: steady low humming sound

instinctively: in a way that comes naturally without thinking

savoring: taking great delight in

hesitantly: in a way that shows uncertainty or fear

timidly: fearfully

discipline: self-control

distinguish: to know the difference between or tell apart

infer: to use reason and experience to figure out what an author does not say directly