Unit4-The Day Anna Kadulski Learned to Drive
Be all smiles: to be very happy about something.
Be speechless: to be too surprised to speak.
Complex: a group of related building (perhaps owned by one person).
Passenger seat: the seat next to the driver (in a car or truck).
Plead: to beg; to ask for something, with sincere feelings.
Shiny: bright and smooth.
Spotless: perfectly clean.
Take care of something: to know how to manage something.
Thriving: growing; healthy.
Understand supply and demand: to realize that one person can make money by providing what others want to buy.
Widow: a woman whose husband has died.
Argue: to have a fight with words; to disagree.
Charming: pleasant in personality.
Dairy cow: an animal that gives lots of milk.
Deliver: to take to person, or to help a woman give birth to (a child).
Depressed: very sad in spirit.
Disagreement: a fight with words.
Enroll: to become a student.
Graduate: to finish studies at a school; to get a degree or diploma.
Harsh: difficult to tolerate; severe; hear.
Hearing impairment: a lack of ability to hear sounds.
Intend: to plan; to mean for something to be (that way).
Legal paper: a document that can be used in court.
Patient: a person who is sick and in the hospital.
Quit claim: a legal paper in which a person gives up property.
Realization: an understanding of the facts.
Rights: the ability to own something, the ability to vote, and the like.
Senior citizen: a person over the age of 65.
Supervisor: a boss; a person in charge.
Veteran: a retired soldier.
Wrinkled: not smooth, but creased with many lines (said of old people's skin)
Bait: food used to catch animal such as fish or mice.
Beehive: a home for a community of bees, where there is a lot of honey.
Be in touch with: to communicate with easily; to be familiar with.
Be worth it: to give a good value in exchange for it.
Collect: to gather; to pick up and bring to one place.
Fish: to catch fish for food.
Fishhook: a curved wire with a sharp barb on the end for catching fish to eat.
Freeze: to become solid from cold.
Furnace: a central place for heating a building.
Gather: to pick up and bring to one place; to collect.
Glove: a cloth or leather covering for a hand.
Hitch: to attach or connect so as to be able to pull.
Jar: a glass container with a large opening at the top, or mouth.
Log: a large piece of wood cut from a tree.
Peel: to remove the skin of (fruit or vegetables) with a knife.
Pine knot: a hard piece of unburned wood from a burned tree from the place where a branch and tree trunk separated.
Ripe: ready to be used or eaten.
Rob: to take from; to steal from.
Scrape: to use a hard tool to remove something on the surface of another thing.
Slit: to cut with a knife in a straight line.
Stem: the green part between a fruit and the roots.
Sting: a painful bite or sore from a bee or other insect.
Trailer: a wheeled cart that can be pulled by a car or truck.
Wax: paraffin; candle wax.