Charlottes Web Words Chapters 12 14 A cellar
Charlotte’s Web Words Chapters 12 -14
A cellar is a dark, damp space in the ground, under a house or building.
Stairs go down to the cellar.
A person or a thing’s idiosyncrasy is something weird or special about him, her, or it. Only it is that way.
This monkey’s idiosyncracy is its big nose.
An idiosyncracy of the fall is that the leaves change colors.
A person’s destiny is what is definitely going to happen to him. (Not everyone believes we have a destiny. )
It is the destiny of the people in the boat to go down the waterfall!
It is not Wilbur’s destiny to be killed for the farmer’s ham and bacon.
To adjourn is to stop, for now. Maybe we will keep going later.
They adjourned—they stopped their meeting—and went to have coffee.
A task is simply something you have to do.
Sweeping the floor is his task.
Rummaging means looking and moving things around inside a drawer, box, or other place.
Here is a bum (a man without a home) rummaging through a dumpster.
And here is a baby rummaging through a cabinet.
Dung means poop, especially from an animal.
That dung heap sure is one big pile of poop!
To crochet is to use yarn to make something fancy. You use special crochet hooks.
I think she is crocheting a place mat.
How fancy—a crochet necklace.
Knitting is different. To knit is to use yarn to make something relatively plain, like a sweater.
What is she knitting? Socks? A sweater?
A doily is a fancy piece of crochet, or paper, that you put a dish or a cup on.
The cup is on the doily.
Something is incessant if it is done without stopping.
The rain was incessant. Everyone was wet.
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