Reading Lesson 2

ripple

• a small wave or series of waves on the surface of a liquid

• moving around quickly

• people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there

• to lose your ability to fight against someone or something, and to allow them to control or persuade you

Seething

• a small wave or series of waves on the surface of a liquid

• moving around quickly

• people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there

• to lose your ability to fight against someone or something, and to allow them to control or persuade you

Indigenous

• strange and mysterious

• to lose your ability to fight against someone or something, and to allow them to control or persuade you

• shaped or moving with many bends and curves

• people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there

Succumb

• to lose your ability to fight against someone or something, and to allow them to control or persuade you

• shaped or moving with many bends and curves

• the impressive behaviour of someone who controls their emotions in a difficult situation

• to severely damage or destroy a vehicle or building

Sinuous

• moving around quickly

• to severely damage or destroy a vehicle or building

• shaped or moving with many bends and curves

• to force someone to do something, or to get something from someone using force

Uncanny

• to severely damage or destroy a vehicle or building

• to force someone to do something, or to get something from someone using force

• strange and mysterious

• a disease that can be spread from one person to another through touch or through the air

Dignity

• a formal agreement between governments of different countries about how they should behave towards each other or towards the people in their country

• the impressive behaviour of someone who controls their emotions in a difficult situation

• a disease that can be spread from one person to another through touch or through the air

• to say a poem or story that you have learnt to an audience

Wreck

• to stop happening or continuing

• a disease that can be spread from one person to another through touch or through the air

• to force someone to do something, or to get something from someone using force

• to severely damage or destroy a vehicle or building

Compel

• someone who has an official position

• involving nothing except the person or thing mentioned

• a disease that can be spread from one person to another through touch or through the air

• to force someone to do something, or to get something from someone using force

Contagion

• the practice of doing what someone tells you to do, or of obeying a law or rule

• a disease that can be spread from one person to another through touch or through the air

• to say a poem or story that you have learnt to an audience

• a formal agreement between governments of different countries about how they should behave towards each other or towards the people in their country