arid ˈɛrəd adjective
1. lacking sufficient water or rainfall
2. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
The word arid has appeared in 113 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 15 in the Opinion essay “‘What Can Burn Will Burn,’” by David Wallace-Wells:
In recent years, fire-conscious Americans across the arid West would look out on parched landscapes, knowing that nearly everything they saw was ready fuel and worrying about what would happen if some accident — a downed power line, a spark thrown by heavy machinery, a reckless cookout or even outright arson — should happen to ignite it
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