The Water Trilogy offers many great opportunities to introduce your students to new vocabulary words.  Consider setting aside the assigned spelling textbook one week and using a vocabulary list made entirely of words found in Dalkey’s series!  Listed below are just a few of the many great words to which you should familiarize your students.

• Acrid
• Adulation
• Aerating
• Albino
• Ambivalence
• Aquamarine
• Balustrades
• Beachcomber
• Buttresses
• Chalice
• Charlatan
• Cisterns
• Corrugated
• Craggy
• Crenellated
• Culvert
• Forebears
• Fumaroles
• Gargantuan
• Impediment
• Imperiously
• Lintels
• Malevolence
• Malleable
• Mortaring
• Myriad
• Nimbus
• Petroglyphs
• Prognosticator
• Replenished
• Semi paralyzed
• Siphons
• Telepathically
• Trepidation
• Undulate
• Viaducts
• Warmonger
• Whirlpool