Vocabulary

dry season

perfect; complete; flawless

to notice; to realize; to realise; to become aware (of); to perceive; to sense

to be effective; to take effect; to be good (for)

to be wounded; to get injured

to notice; to realize; to realise; to become aware (of); to perceive; to sense

prayer; grace (at meals)

cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

pretty; lovely; beautiful; fair

to be careful; to pay attention; to take care

each and every person (saying); one and all; unanimously; in unison; separately; individually

combination; assortment; set

warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown

crowd; community; group; herd; gathering; assembly

puppy

to beg; to ask; to request; to invite

to have someone send (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (via someone else); to leave (a message) with someone

lamb

to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to seclude oneself; to hide away; to stay inside (one's shell)

treat (esp. food and drink); entertainment; treating someone (to a meal); taking someone to dinner

inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front; wrong way round

to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for

to sweep away; to wash away; to dredge

to expose (to the sun, public, danger, etc.)

in three days' time; two days after tomorrow

threshold (amount, dose, etc.)

praise; admiration; commendation; approbation; applause

summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season

to step aside; to move (out of the way); to make way

to step back; to move back; to retreat

heart; mind; spirit; vitality; inner strength

carpet; rug; runner

the teens (10-19); teenage

rhetorical flourishes

in order; in turn

several months

refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air); brisk; bracing; fresh; refreshed

matter of taste

terrible; dreadful; awful; horrible; ghastly

everything; all; the whole