| check |
to look at something in order to make sure that it is right or correct. |
| chill |
a mild but uncomfortable coldness. |
| cupboard |
a piece of furniture with shelves to store food, dishes, or other things. |
| drip |
to come down in drops. |
| evening |
the period between late afternoon and night; the early part of the night. |
| golf |
a game played on a large outdoor course with small holes in the ground spaced far apart. Players use a set of special clubs to hit a small white ball into each of the series of holes. There are nine or eighteen holes in a golf course. The object of the game is to get the ball into each hole using as few strokes as possible. |
| handle |
to do what needs to be done with something or someone; manage; control. |
| jail |
a building in which a government keeps people who have broken a law. |
| lobby |
to try to influence people who make laws to vote in a way that supports what the group wants. |
| nowhere |
not anywhere; in no place. |
| own |
belonging to oneself or itself alone. |
| shear |
to cut off with scissors or a tool like scissors. |
| snowflake |
a single flake of snow. |
| tank |
a large container used to hold liquid or gas. |
| though |
used to connect two parts of a sentence when the meaning of one part seems to disagree with the other. |