Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 38 townspeople 36 desolation 34 sullen 34 townsfolk 32 foreboding 31 remains 31 Afghans 31 narrators 31 bleakness 31 fates 31 villagers 30 pasts 30 perpetually 30 brooding 30 emptiness 30 darkness 30 souls 30 hopelessness 29 inhabitants 29 casts 29 darkened 29 Villagers 29 Townspeople 29 pall 29 glimmering 29 grimly 29 longings 29 orange glow 29 unknowable 29 bleak 29 eternally 28 loyalties 28 deathly 28 eerily 28 fate 27 locals 27 gray skies 27 ghost 27 Locals 27 sorrowful 27 despair 27 melancholy 27 inhabit 27 misty 27 portents 27 shadows 27 existences 27 future 27 surrounds 26 mournful 26 specters 26 glow 26 warm glow 26 villages 26 allegiances 26 Tikrit 26 residents 26 tribesmen 26 Tarmiyah 25 outlying villages 25 grim 25 ragtag 25 bunkered 25 shadow 25 sombre 25 loyalties lie 25 Residents 25 murk 25 still 25 remain 25 populace 24 nonetheless 24 Baqubah 24 ashen 24 understandably 24 surrounding 24 somber 24 destinies 24 somber mood 24 seemingly 24 nameless 24 village 24 unfolds 24 outwardly 24 tales 24 tale 24 somewhat 24 mood 24 hamlet 24 enveloping 23 horrors 23 Still 23 hamlets 23 tribal elders 23 remained 23 vengeful 23 shrouded 23 lies 23 harsh realities 23 inner demons 23 town