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US drought pushes up food prices

Vocabulary

drought

long period of dry weather leading to water shortages

withered

dried out and shrivelled

staple crops

most important foods

irrigated

watered by using pipes, ditches and streams

a bumper year

a larger than usual period of growing

projections

estimates or forecasts

exports

sent to other countries

dramatically

in a big way

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