The Stranger Vocabulary

1. timid-easily frightened, shy

2. autumn-the season after summer
3. thermometer-an instrument that measures temperature
4. draft-a flow of air
5. peculiar-unusual, strange or odd
6. mercury-silvery, white metal used on thermometers
7. etched-made a design by cutting lines
8. frost-very thin covering of ice
9. apologize-say “sorry”
10. slimy-thick and slippery
11. fault-a mistake
12. genuine-honest, sincere
13. local-in a small area
14. proof-showing truth
15. borrow-used for a while
16. fainted-passed out
17. reference-used for information
18. insisted-demanded
19. jammed-to push suddenly or hard
20. fascinated-greatly interested