1 pioneer

2 groundbreaker

1 drought

1 beyond belief

2 preposterous

3 absurd

4 intemperate

5 dissipated

1 an abandoned village

1 drought

2 arid

3 dry

1 soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war

1 lit. looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom)

2 fig. desperate for an escape from a difficult situation

1 until the end of time (idiom)

1 to be distracted from one's work and fail to achieve results (idiom)

1 desolate and uninhabited (idiom)