Lesson 3 Vocabulary Words

A strong wish to be good at something or to have something.

• ambition

• current

• auction

A public sale. Each item is sold to the person who offers the most money.

• frail

• auction

• coast

The land beside the sea.

• intelligent

• volunteer

• coast

A flow of air, water, or electricity.

• current

• novel

• starve

To move without power or effort.

• coast

• starve

• ambition

Of the present time.

• current

• novel

• auction

Weak, not very strong.

• frail

• amibition

• resident

Able to learn, think, and understand quickly and easily.

• starve

• intelligent

• novel

A long story about people and events that are imagined by the author.

• coast

• frail

• novel

New and different.

• starve

• novel

• intelligent