vocabulary
1. automobile: a passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal combustion engine.
(page 105) The ancient sister managed to straighten the vehicle and get it pointed in the right direction, and then at last the once magnificent automobile tottered down the highway and headed for Dr Dunbar's surgery in Cathedral Road, Cardiff.
2. announced: a public notification.
(page 105) I've never driven in a city,' the ancient and trembling sister announced.
3. narrow: less wide or to make less wide, like a road that is swerve.
(page 62) hundred yards from the jetty, along a narrow dusty road, a simple wooden hotel painted white.
4. Tobacco: it is in a pipe and people get a diced to smoking and it has tobacco in it.
(page 129) I picked up the pipe and knocked all the tobacco out of it.
5. mysterious: it is something that is almost impossible.
(page 95) 'God works in mysterious ways,'
6. Captain: is a leader of people, the people want to follow.
(page 119) Captain Hardcastle is an officer and a gentleman,' the Headmaster said.
7. waistcoat: it is a type of clothes that you wear.
(page 137) Now for the waistcoat.
8. enthralled: you get distracted by something
(page 151) We were enthralled by the piece of intelligence and asked him to prove it on the blackboard, which he did.
9. splendid: when you are happy what you got.
(page 152) I cannot remember all the other thousands of splendid things that old Corkers cooked up to keep his class happy.
10 frantic: distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion.
(page 153) this was the signal for frantic activity and everyone in the class would leap to his feet.