| beg |
to ask a favor of; to plead for. |
| bus1 |
a long motor vehicle with many rows of seats that carries many people. |
| cross |
an upright line with another line across it. |
| engine |
a machine that uses energy from a source such as gasoline or electricity to do work. |
| hamburger |
ground meat, or a round flat mass of ground meat that is cooked and served on bread. |
| lump |
a small mass or pile with no special shape; hunk. |
| meal1 |
an occasion when people prepare and eat food at a specific time. |
| nail |
a thin, pointed piece of metal with a flat top. You hammer nails into pieces of wood or other material in order to fasten them together. |
| ray1 |
a thin beam of light. |
| rug |
a piece of thick material used to cover part of a floor. |
| spool |
an object shaped like a cylinder with a rim on each end. Thread, tape, wire, and film are wound on spools. |
| straw |
dried stems of certain grain plants. Straw is used to feed farm animals and to make things such as baskets and hats. |
| trace |
a very small amount of something. |
| twig |
a small branch of a tree or other plant. |
| vacuum |
a space or container in which there is no air or from which most of the air has been removed. |