Vocabulary

• stay away: To keep a distance from something or someone; to avoid approaching.
• set to: To energetically begin to do, e.g. making a fire
• sneak out: To leave a place secretly, usually without permission.
• have to: Must do
• pick out: To choose or select one item from many
• mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
• sneak: To move around in a way so no one will see you
• wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• faith: Belief in a god or gods; religion
• fade: To cause to lose brightness of color
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• leave: To go away from; depart
• balcony: Platform with a rail projecting out of a building
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• afraid: Worried that something bad will happen; scared
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• quiet: Hidden, or done in a private way
• staircase: Flight of stairs and the structures supporting it
• flashback: Showing an earlier event in a film, book etc.
• lonely: Sad because apart from other people
• scarlet: Bright red color
• princess: Daughter of a king and queen
• tired: Without energy so you want to rest or fall asleep
• prince: Person's name
• garden: Yard; ground outside your house to grow plants
• baby: A very young child, who cannot yet speak
• knelt: To move your body so your knees are on the floor