After you ave used context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word, you should break the word down to its prefixes and suffixes
Answer:
Zeitoun spots fish swimming in the flood waters
Explanation:
The excerpt above is from "an account of Hurricane Katrina" by Dave Eggers. In the excerpt, Dave Eggers described the experience of the hurricane compared to that of the apocalypse, therefore, comparing the event to the total and great destruction that was recorded in the Bible in the book of Revelation will prevail over the earth at the end of the world as recorded in the account of John, in Revelation. The hurricane was so terrible and deadly that animals that are unable to fly were washed away by the flood, including even the fishes inside the water were not speared and also affected with the hurricane.
The dark cloud was like a stain of darkness over the wide-open plain.
(Is that too advanced?)
There was a red stain on the boy's shirt as he stood in the grassy plain.
(That's a bit simpler.)
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