1. regard
merciful
predict
McBroom accurate
the drought
prairie
Rainmaker desperately
by Sid sowing
Fleishman heaved
dispositions
genuine
moisture

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. genuine – adj. being what it
seems to be

13. scanning – v. looking closely
and carefully

14. line 1 – farmer’s dog’s their our
line 2 – capital vision false exploded
line 3 – predict merciful exclaimed international
line 4 – Icelandic metallic poetic realistic