Actually the book was quite easy for me to understand
as I’m highly adept in understanding unknown words through inference from the
context. But in order to improve vocabulary it is essential to check out the
unknown words from a dictionary.
Unknown Word My Guess Dictionary Meaning
1)Stifling (ch.3;
p.6) tight suffocating, constraining
2)Convicted
(ch.3; p.7) guilty declared guilty in a court
of law
3)Perseverance (ch.3; p.8) will
determination
4)Odor (ch.3;
p.9) smell? a distinctive, especially
unpleasant
smell
5)Perimeter (ch.7; p.26) - the
continuous line
forming
the boundary of
a closed geometrical figure
6)Forlorn (ch.7; p.30) sad, desperate pitifully sad, abandoned
7)Wheelbarrow (ch.15; p.69) a kind of a carriage a small cart with a
single wheel at the front
and two supporting legs and two handles at the
rear
8)Arthritis (ch.25; p.31) an illness a disease causing
painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
9)to mock (ch.27; p.117) to tease tease, laugh at or mimic in a
scornful or contemptuous manner
