The Otter - Vocabulary

"It's hard to convey how special he was to me..."

The teacher conveyed the instructions to the students once everyone paid attention.

• COMMUNICATE

• TRANSPORT

"would have fought anyone who tried to harm me. Besides being so valiant..."

I consider Aneesha a valiant lady. She confronted some males who were catcalling her and her female friends. Most of us would've just walked away.

• SHOWING BRAVERY

• SHOW-OFF ONESELF

DRAW THE WORD 'SHALLOW'

"While the river near the house was good enough for catching fish, it was too SHALLOW for swimming"

The babies only hung out in the paddling pool since it was SHALLOW compared to the rest of the swimming pool.

"We constructed a dam out of some rocks"

The builders constructed the house according to the architect's plan.

• ARRANGE

• BUILD

"the rocks which had made the track very difficult to negotiate"

Lisa carefully negotiated the narrow bends on the hillside road.

• REACHING AN AGREEMENT AFTER A DISCUSSION

• FINDING A WAY OR THROUGH AN OBSTACLE OR DIFFICULT ROUTE

"Confused by the barking dogs and by its own sense of peril"

Roads on cliff-sides are always perilous.

• FULL OF DANGER OR RISK

• DISASTER HAPPENING

"the otter began desperately scrambling over out dam, its paws slipping"

During the flood, I grabbed a cat who was scrambling on the side of the boat.

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DRAW THE WORD "SHUDDER"

"The otter lay quite docile SHUDDERING from time to time"

The cat SHUDDER after it got caught in the rain.

"Will grabbed his towel and waded downstream"

We just waded through the shallow part of the pool before diving in the much deeper part.

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"The otter lay quite docile"

Even though Ellie was a big dog, she is actually quite docile.

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