| harvest |
the gathering of ripe crops, or the amount gathered. |
| hoe |
a tool with a thin, flat blade at the end of a long handle. It is used for breaking up the soil. |
| legend |
a story or group of stories that have been handed down from a time long ago and that many people in a society know but cannot prove to be true or untrue. |
| lemon |
a small, sour fruit with yellow skin. Lemons grow on trees. |
| life |
the thing that is in humans, animals, and plants that allows them to grow and to produce more creatures like themselves. Things like rocks do not have life. |
| model |
a small copy of something. |
| neighbor |
a person who lives close to someone else. |
| peanut |
a seed that people eat like a nut but grows under the ground and is in the same family of plants as beans. |
| pueblo |
a house made of adobe or stone built by Native Americans in the southwest United States. Pueblos are shared by the community and are usually several stories high. |
| send |
to cause to be carried to another place, especially by mail. |
| serve |
to give aid or help; be of use. |
| skate |
to move over ice or another hard surface using shoes that have a blade or wheels attached to the bottom. |
| smack |
to hit noisily with an open hand; slap. |
| stray |
to wander away from a group or place. |
| though |
used to connect two parts of a sentence when the meaning of one part seems to disagree with the other. |