Vocabulary

• high and dry: In a helpless situation; stranded or abandoned.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
• soul: Central or basic part of something
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• tight: Showing anxiety or anger; tense
• seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• part: Division of a book
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• compose: To calm yourself after being angry or upset
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• bay: Part of an ocean or lake partly surrounded by land
• live: To be alive
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• heart: A feeling of care for others; compassion
• baby: A very young child, who cannot yet speak