Vocabulary U2L3 Orville Wright

trying to repair or improve something by making small changes

• marveling

• absorbed

• tinkering

• spanned

held the interest of

• bore

• manner

• mused

• absorbed

thought long and quietly

• mused

• spanned

• confidence

• lever

a rod or bar attached to a machine, used to work or control it

• trial

• bore

• manner

• lever

feeling wonder and astonishment

• tinkering

• bore

• marveling

• manner

extended across or over

• spanned

• mused

• absorbed

• lever

a trying or testing of something

• bore

• manner

• tinkering

• trial

trust that a person will not tell a secret

• lever

• confidence

• manner

• spanned

the way in which something is done

• marveling

• manner

• spanned

• bore

a person or thing that is dull

• trial

• lever

• bore

• mused