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Vocab 3:Ray Bradbury
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Scythe | a tool used for cutting crops such as grass or wheat, with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole attached to which are one or two short handles |
| Yonder | - ADV: at some distance in the direction indicated; over there - that or those (used to refer to something situated at a distance) |
| Bequeath | to leave (a personal estate or one's body) to a person or other beneficiary by a will |
| Wield | have and be able to use (power or influence) |
| Rouse | bring out of sleep; awaken |
| Lope | run or move with a long bounding stride |
| Blunder | make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily |
| Dilate | make or become wider, larger, or more open or to expand upon a subject |
| Lath | a thin flat strip of wood, especially one of a series forming a foundation for the plaster of a wall or the tiles of a roof |