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The Birds
Words to Own
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pasty | meat pie |
| Disposition | personality or temperament |
| Shingle | beach covered with pebbles |
| Placid | calm; untroubled |
| Apprehensive | fearful |
| Garish | too bright |
| Scullery | room next to the kitchen where dishes are washed |
| Wireless | radio |
| Stile | steps over a wall or fence |
| Recounted | described in detail; narrated |
| Pilchards | fish similar to sardines |
| Sullen | gloomy |
| Council houses | public housing built for lower income families after World War II |
| Rubicund | reddish, rosy |
| Furtively | stealthily, as if to avoid being seen or heard |
| BBC | British Broadcast Corporation |
| Pips | beeping sounds that indicate the exact time |
| Gramophone | phonograph; record player |
| Imperative | extremely important; urgent |
| Paraffin | British term for "kerosene", a fuel that catches fire easily |
| Primus | small portable stove |
| Bovril | thick, beef-flavored liquid that is spread over bread, or used to make a broth |
| Fretful | irritable and discontented |
| Pram | baby carriage |
| Gib | balk; hesitate |
| Deft | skillful in a quick, sure and easy way |