Vocabulary

• ride on: To continue as planned, despite difficulties.
• lift off: To take off vertically, as a rocket or helicopter.
• too heavy: Having excessive weight; difficult to lift or move.
• as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
• turn into: To change to become something else
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• turn out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• sticky fingers: Tendency to steal; a person who steals.
• on the couch: Receiving psychotherapy or psychological treatment.
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• fabric: Cloth or material
• adventure: An exciting and often dangerous experience
• ancestor: A person from your family that lived in the past
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• illustrate: To supply pictures to go along with words
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• courage: Quality of being able to face danger without fear
• fiber: Basic character and nature of a person
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• spooky: Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• fold: To bend one part of something against another
• sheet: Piece of cloth you put on the bed to sleep on
• wipe: To clean or dry something with a cloth
• curtain: Piece of cloth used to cover a window
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• slide: Part of machines that slides backward and forward
• sticky: Easy to adhere or stick to other things
• detail: Small part of something; tiny fact
• porch: Roofed structure over the entrance of a building
• branch: Part of a family related to the same members
• melt: To disappear or to go away
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• hover: (Bird/helicopter) to fly staying in one position
• brave: (Old-fashioned) A native American warrior
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• bar: Piece of (soap, chocolate etc.)
• action: Something that a person or thing does
• twirl: Turning/spinning quickly, as to show off a dress
• blob: Object that does not have a regular shape
• wagon: Four wheel vehicle used to transport things
• cream: Pale color that is yellowish white
• fireplace: Open area in a wall where a fire can be built
• cheer: Feeling of happiness or optimism
• upstairs: On a floor above
• terrify: To scare or greatly frighten
• quilt: Bed cover of padding sewn into two layers of cloth
• sew: To make something using a needle and thread
• ghost: To write a book on behalf of another person
• gust: Sudden strong blast of wind
• whirl: To turn rapidly in circles
• ballerina: Classical dancer who performs in a ballet
• sky: The place where we see clouds above us
• scrappy: Quarrelsome; aggressive
• grandmother: Your mother or father's mother