| accent |
a way of speaking a language that is typical of people from a particular area. |
| clearly |
without a doubt. |
| exception |
the act or fact of leaving out. |
| lawmaker |
one who creates or approves laws. |
| organization |
the quality of being carefully arranged or ordered. |
| quarterback |
the football player who calls the plays and handles the ball in most plays. |
| ridicule |
talk or actions that make unkind fun of someone or something. |
| rotary |
turning or able to turn on an axis. |
| skim |
to remove from the surface of a liquid, or to clear the surface of by removing fat or other floating matter. |
| snicker |
to laugh in a sly and partly restrained way. |
| spiral |
curving or circling around a fixed point but moving farther away or nearer to it. |
| tax |
a sum of money paid to a government, which the government uses to pay for its services to the people and to maintain itself. |
| timber |
trees that are used as wood to build houses and buildings. |
| vampire |
a creature in folk tales that is said to have died but come back to life. Vampires suck blood from people in order to stay among the living. |
| weep |
to show strong feelings by crying. |