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Arid

/ˈærəd/
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(adj) Very dry.

Exporting water from an arid country to the rainy Europe is pure folly.
It is an arid region, almost a desert.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ climate of the desert means that very few plants can grow there.

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