Vocabulary to study before reading the short story "Burger" by Wyn Lyovarin"

1. leather – (noun) the skin of an animal. “She felt uncomfortable with the leather jacket gift because of her fondness for animals.”

2. handbag – (noun) a bag or box of leather, fabric, plastic, or the like, held in the hand or carried by means of a handle or strap“She reached into her handbag and found a comb."

3. fumble - (verb) to be clumsy, to handle clumsily, to drop things, or search around blindly"He fumbled the ball and made his team lose at the very last minute."

4. thieve – (verb) the act of taking something from someone, to steal. “The thieving is awful at JFK airport."

5. parents – (noun), a parent is the mother or the father figure of a child “My parents always take care of me when I’m sick."

6. steal – (verb) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully “Someone is always stealing the display candy."

7. poster – (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement“A poster advertised the coming attractions."

8. eat – (verb) ingesting food “He was eating his seventh hotdog because he hadn’t eaten anything in ages."

9. rooster– (noun) a male (boy) chicken“My uncles raises roosters on his farm for their meat and to mate with the chickens."

10. study – (verb) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject “Learning a second language requires a lot of studying and perseverance."