absurd; ridiculous

beyond belief; preposterous; absurd; intemperate; dissipated

wilderness

desolate

to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste; wasted; to neglect (one's work or study)

crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty

to prepare against natural disasters

(literary) famine

(neologism, attested by 2016) TV drama drought; nothing good to watch

to be tolerant; to be forgiving; to conceal; to cover