Vocabulary

• ever since: Continuously from a past time until now.
• in trouble: Experiencing difficulties, problems, or legal issues.
• call on: To order or ask someone to do a specific activity
• look the other way: To deliberately ignore something wrong or bad that happens.
• home in: Move or direct toward a specific target or goal.
• call about: To phone someone for a particular reason
• trouble in: Problems or difficulties existing within a specific place or situation.
• on the floor: Located on the ground or bottom surface of a room.
• at the crossroads: At a point where an important decision must be made.
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• frame: To make a person that is not guilty appear guilty
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• chase: Act of going after someone to catch them
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• honest: Good, truthful, sincere, or faithful; trustworthy
• stream: To send a constant flow of data over the internet
• quarter: 25 cents
• border: To be right next to another country or state
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• wheat: A kind of grain that is used to make flour
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
• wheel: Round thing that rolls, used for moving things
• frank: Member of the ancient Germanic peoples
• disappear: To no longer see because it's not there any more
• blood: Red liquid in the bodies of people and animals
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• trouble: To worry, bother or disturb someone
• rob: Person's name
• reel: To wind something in on a reel; pull something in
• tail: Extended part at the back of an animal's body
• downtown: Located in the business part of a town
• bleed: To allow a liquid or gas to escape
• sergeant: Officer of low rank in the military
• willow: Tree with drooping branches often found near water
• crossroad: Junction where one street or road crosses another