| Vocabulary Words | Meanings |
|---|---|
| water lily | a water plant with large flat floating leaves and beautiful pink, white or yellow flowers |
| watercress | a green plant that grows in fresh water, it is eaten in salads and sandwiches |
| waterfall | a stream of water falling down from a high place |
| waterproof | able to keep water out. A raincoat is waterproof |
| wave | water moving in a curved line on the surface of the sea or a lake. The same word also means to move something, like your hand or a flag, back and forth or up and down |
| wax | a soft yellowish material used in making candles. The same word also means sealing wax, which melts when you heat it, and then gets hard again |
| way | a road or path; space to move through. The same word also means how to do something, like the way to paint a picture |
| wayward | perverse, capricious |
| weak | not strong |
| weaken | to make something or someone weak |
| wealth | great riches; a lot of money |
| weapon | anything used to fight or hunt with, such as a gun, a heavy stick, or a bow and arrows |
| wear | to be dressed in. You wear thin clothes in summer and thick clothes in winter |
| wearisome | tiresome, monotonous, fatiguing |
| weary | very tired |
| weather | temporary change in climate or season. The weather can be wet or dry, hot or cold |
| weathercock | a flat piece of metal, often in the shape of a cock, that turns in the wind to show you which direction the wind is coming from |
| weave | to make cloth by twisting threads over and under each other |
| web | the lacy net that spiders spin to trap insects |
| web-foot | a foot that has skin joining the toes together. Ducks, geese and swans are all web-footed |
| wedding | the marriage ceremony, when a man and a woman become husband and wife |
| wedge | a triangular piece of metal or wood, very thin at one end and thicker at the other. You put a wedge between tow things to hold them firm or to push them a part |
| wee | small; tiny |
| weed | wild plants that grow where they are not wanted in gardens or in fields where crops are grown |
| weedy | worthless, of no use, abounding with weeds |
| week | seven days |
| weekend | Saturday and Sunday |
| weekly | lasting for a week, once a week |
| weep | to cry tears |
| weigh | to find out how heavy something is |
| weighing | heavy, important, momentous |
| weight | the amount that something weighs |
| weird | strange and frightening |
| welcome | to greet someone with joy |
| well | healthy; properly. The same word also means a deep hole in the ground from which oil or water is obtained |
| well being | prosperity, happiness, welfare |
| wellingtons | rubber boots |
| west | the direction in which the sun sets: the opposite direction to east |
| wet | not dry; covered with liquid |
| whack | to strike something so hard that it makes a noise |
| whale | the largest animal found in the sea |
| wharf | a landing place for loading and unloading ships |
| wheat | a kind of grain from which flour is made |
| wheel | a large flat circle made of wood or metal. Cars, buses and bicycles must have wheels to be able to move along |
| when | at what time; at the time that |
| whence | from what source, place, how |
| whenever | at any time |
| where | at or in what place |
| whether | if or if not |
| whey | the watery part of milk. When cheese is made, the milk is separated into the thick part (called curds) and the liquid part (called whey) |
Skills involved in Note-talking
Listening and writing down the bare essentials of the talk are the two skills involved in Note - talking.