Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• look around: To explore a place; search for something.
• from time to time: Occasionally; sometimes but not regularly.
• get up to: To do something slightly naughty
• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• blind: Unable to see; with eyes that cannot see
• kick: Feeling of enjoyment or excitement
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• conclude: To finish or cause to finish; end
• scrape: To take something off a surface with a sharp tool
• splendid: Very impressive and beautiful
• deaf: Not able to hear; hard of hearing
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• sterile: Completely clean; with no bacteria
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• cripple: To hurt and make useless
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• divorced: To legally end a marriage to (someone)
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• mischief: Damage; harm done on purpose
• stay: To keep trying without giving up
• depress: To make someone feel sad or miserable
• playful: Being fun or wanting to play
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• fat: Amount beyond what is usual or necessary
• ugly: (E.g. of a situation) bad; likely to turn nasty
• read: Person's name
• lovely: Attractive or beautiful
• today: This day; day that is happening now
• comfortably: Having more than enough e.g. money for your needs
• retard: To cause to move or proceed slowly
• auto: Car; a road vehicle with four or more wheels
• bedtime: Time you go to bed
• gay: Happy and bright
• dale: Area of low land between hills or mountains