Vocabulary

• put out: To publish, e.g. a book
• up there: In or to a higher place or position; far away.
• pull down: To destroy an old building; demolish
• in case of: If something happens; in the event of.
• step aside: To move to the side to allow someone to pass.
• rest up: To relax and get some rest in order to recover from tiredness or illness.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• regret: Feeling of being sorry, as for what you didn't do
• familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
• silly: Careless
• aid: To help others and provide things
• hustle: To make someone move quickly by pushing them
• fellow: Man or a boy
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• pleasure: Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
• mystery: Quality of being strange and not understood
• rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• bottom: The part of your body you sit on
• shatter: To break into small pieces
• blanket: Piece of cloth you covers yourself with in bed
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• slide: Part of machines that slides backward and forward
• skeleton: Structure of bones that supports the body
• pole: One of two opposite ideas, qualities or positions
• volunteer: Working willingly without pay to help others
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• citizen: Person who belongs to and has rights in a country
• slippery: Difficult to hold or stand as it's smooth/wet/icy
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• duty: Work required by your job or position
• charm: Quality of making people like you; attractiveness
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• ladder: Series of levels to go up in society or business
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• rookie: New to doing something; beginner
• ride: Machine at an amusement park for riding on for fun
• climb: To rise gradually and steadily to a higher point
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• extinguish: To make something stop burning
• pet: Animal kept by a person for company and friendship
• department: Division of a larger part or organization
• garbage: Waste material that has been thrown out
• upstairs: On a floor above
• thirst: Powerful desire or need for e.g. knowledge
• snail: Slow moving creature with soft body and hard shell
• bunk: Beds built like a shelf into a wall
• whoa: Tell someone to do something more slowly
• bathroom: Room where you take a bath or go to the toilet
• lumpy: Like or containing small hard or sticky lumps
• memento: Object to remind you of an event or place
• firefighter: Person whose job is stopping and putting out fires
• bikini: Two-piece swim suit for women
• sonny: Friendly way of addressing a boy