Saturday, November 24, 2012

Lesson 12: A Pen Pal for Max

deciphered – If you have figured out a message that is difficult to understand or that is written in code, then you have deciphered it.

mistaken – If you are wrong about something, you are mistaken.

catastrophe – A catastrophe is something really terrible that has happened.

fortunate – If you are fortunate, you are very lucky.

translate – If you translate something, you say or write it in another language.

repairs – When something needs repairs, it needs to be fixed.

heaving – Heaving is throwing something heavy with great effort.

bothersome – When something is bothersome, it bothers you and causes problems.

din – If there is a din, there is so much noise that it is hard to hear anything over it.

dodging – When you are dodging something, you avoid something that is coming toward you.