Vocabulary

• on your marks: A command given to competitors at the start of a race, telling them to take their starting positions.
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• underestimate: To make too low a guess of something's size, value
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• declare: To make a statement in a strong and confident way
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• object: Something you can see or touch, but is not alive
• endless: Having or appearing to have no end
• source: Piece of information; a person giving information
• goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
• blanket: Piece of cloth you covers yourself with in bed
• fascination: Quality that attracts attention
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• contest: Struggle or competition between rivals
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• cattle: Cows or bulls on a farm
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• sheriff: Officer who enforces the law in an area
• rope: A thick string made by twisting fibers together
• camp: A (military) base
• sew: To make something using a needle and thread
• improper: Not conforming to social or moral rules; rude
• love: Person's name
• elect: To select someone for a position by voting
• homemade: Made at home, not in a factory
• fun: Amusing and enjoyable
• rodeo: Show in which cowboys rope or corral bulls, etc.
• disqualify: To remove from a contest because a rule was broken
• lasso: Catch with a lasso
• sally: A venture off the beaten path
• snoopy: A fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz