Vocabulary

• in school: Attending an educational institution.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• hem in: To surround something closely to restrict its movement or freedom.
• early: Coming/happening before others in a time sequence
• animal: A living creature that is not a plant or person
• teach: To help someone learn or do something
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• food: What people and animals eat to live
• word: Unit of language that has a meaning
• school: Large group of fish that swim together
• live: To be alive
• wood: Person's name
• cookbook: Book containing recipes showing how to make dishes
• grandmother: Your mother or father's mother
• plastic: Stiff but usually flexible man-made material
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• call: A order or request for action
• garbage: Waste material that has been thrown out
• trash: Garbage or anything that is worthless
• waste: To kill or severely harm someone
• tear: Drop of salty water from the eye
• recipe: Conditions likely to create a particular result
• metal: Usually hard shiny material mined from rock
• meaning: To express a particular idea or thought
• originally: At first; in the beginning
• hedge: To select words to avoid saying something directly
• distinction: Special quality that makes something different
• linguistic: Of or relating to language
• straw: Dry yellow stems of crops such as wheat
• hem: Edge of a cloth folded and stitched down
• compost: Dead plants, leaves or grass, used as fertilizer
• caste: Social class, e.g. in Hinduism
• grandma: Mother of your father or mother