Слово "arid". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Part of his regimen were these long walks arid joggings--about which some at the Speaker’s Table muttered. Gendibal disregarded their chattering.

Atticus’s voice had lost its comfortableness; he was speaking in his arid, detached professional voice.

to grow cotton because of the hot, arid climate.

Strangers were stared out of countenance by staring white houses, staring white walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away.

Atticus’s voice had lost its comfortableness; he was speaking in his arid, detached professional voice.

Recalling what he had said to her and what she had said to him, she was dismayed to see what an arid and businesslike turn their conversation had taken.