Vocabulary

• after dark: After the sun has set and night has begun.
• jump out: To suddenly appear or move forward, often to surprise someone.
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• reward: To give something because of someone's good work
• burden: To weigh down with a load; impose a task upon
• occasion: Significant or important event or function
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• crew: Organized group of workers (e.g. on a ship)
• haunt: To remain in the mind causing worry, sadness, pain
• elastic: Able to return to original shape after stretching
• mystery: Quality of being strange and not understood
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• bounce: A person's energy or confidence
• leave: To go away from; depart
• eternity: A very long time; forever
• signal: To be evidence/an indication something will happen
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• navigation: Act of finding and following the correct course
• mug: Large ceramic drinking cup with a handle
• memory: Ability of the mind to call back past things
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• captain: Title of a senior officer in the military
• sauce: Food made from cooked fruit, e.g. apples or mangos
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• burn: To destroy with fire
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• perfume: Liquid with a pleasing smell you put on your skin
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• cousin: Child of your uncle or aunt
• heart: A feeling of care for others; compassion
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• cap: Covering for the end or top of something
• department: Division of a larger part or organization
• dine: To eat
• howl: To cry or wail loudly
• lock: To become fixed in place and hard to move
• ghost: To write a book on behalf of another person
• bunk: Beds built like a shelf into a wall
• buff: Person who knows a great deal about a topic
• hurry: To move, act, get somewhere, do something quickly
• pink: Color made by mixing red and white
• squire: Gentleman landowner in Britain in former times
• moonlight: To work at a second job (often late at night)
• ghostly: Of or like ghosts or spirits
• oo: The sound of surprise
• oversize: Larger than normal for its kind