Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• cut in: To interrupt someone's conversation
• character: Person in a story, movie or play
• clever: Funny in a way that shows intelligence
• speculation: Taking risks that might lead to big profits
• portray: To play a character in theater or on film
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
• stump: To campaign by making political speeches
• announce: To make a public statement about a plan, decision
• officially: According to what is stated by an authority figure
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• show: To be easily seen or displayed
• fella: Way of spelling 'fellows'
• surprise: To do something that another person didn't expect
• cut: Act/instance of reducing the size or amount of
• love: Person's name
• wait: To delay or not do something until later
• ready: Being likely or about to do something
• preview: Showing of a movie before public release
• handsome: A large amount or quantity
• hotel: Place where people can stay when traveling
• patrick: Apostle and patron saint of Ireland; an English missionary to Ireland in the th century