Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• by mistake: Accidentally; unintentionally.
• must learn: Expressing a strong obligation or necessity to acquire knowledge or a skill.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• exaggerate: To makes things seem more extreme than reality
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• jealous: Wishing you were like someone or had their things
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• fair: Neither very good nor very bad; average
• respect: To follow the established rules
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• harmony: Pleasing, attractive combination of parts, things
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• fantasy: Something imagined and very different from reality
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• amazing: Surprising in a pleasing way
• surround: To be all the way around something
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• plant: Factory or a place where things are made
• insect: A small animal with 6 legs, such as a bee or ant
• pocket: Small cloth bag sewn into clothing to hold things
• wither: To become drier and smaller, as when dead or dying
• cage: Box made of wire or metal bars, e.g. for a bird
• happiness: State of feeling pleased; feeling of satisfaction
• thirsty: Having a powerful desire or need for something
• shine: To point a light in a certain direction
• thirst: Powerful desire or need for e.g. knowledge
• beetle: Insect with a hard, usually black body and 8 legs
• lazy: Not liking to work or make an effort; idle
• garden: Yard; ground outside your house to grow plants
• lightly: In a gentle manner; with little weight or force
• sunlight: Rays of light coming from the sun
• sky: The place where we see clouds above us