Vocabulary

• turn to: To go to someone for help, advice, or information.
• by the book: According to the rules; strictly
• cut up: Be cut up (about) to be upset or angry
• urge: A strong desire for something
• despair: To have lost all hope; lose heart
• sake: Japanese rice wine
• faith: Belief in a god or gods; religion
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
• palm: Inner area of a person's hand
• enemy: Something that stops you doing what you want
• holy: Being good according to religious standards
• great: Very good; better than before
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• sin: Act that breaks a religious law
• touch: To affect feelings, especially by causing sympathy
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• saint: Person who is very good, kind or patient
• pilgrim: Traveler going to a place with religious meaning
• word: Unit of language that has a meaning
• move: To cause someone to have certain emotions
• pray: To speak to your god to request help
• prayer: Words spoken to your god for help
• book: (Police) to officially record someone's crimes
• thou: An old-fashioned word for you
• dear: Loved or valued very much
• trespass: To enter property without permission
• madam: Way to refer to an older woman you do not know
• mother: Female who has a child or children; female parent
• thine: An old-fashioned word for your
• son: Male child; friendly way of addressing a boy
• kiss: To touch something in a light or gentle way
• romeo: An ardent male lover