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abbreviate	When you abbreviate a word, you use a shorter form of it, You often use just a few letters of the word to stand for the whole thing. We often abbreviate things like the names of months, names for the days of the week, and words in addresses like "Street" and "Road." [1/2 definitions]
a few	If you have a few friends, you don't have a lot of friends, but you have a small number of friends. If you have a few friends, you are probably pretty happy. If you have FEW friends, though, you might be sad. There is a big difference between "a few" and just "few." "A few" gives a positive feeling, and "few" gives a negative feeling, even though both of them mean "a small number."
album	a musical recording that is made up of a few or several pieces of music. [1/2 definitions]
approximately	If you get home at approximately four o'clock, it means you get home around four o'clock. You might get there a few minutes before or after four, but the time you get there is near four. If it's approximately two miles from your home to your school, the distance from your home to your school is about two miles. It could be a little more or a little less.
Arab	An Arab is a member of a group of people who came at one time from Arabia. Arabia is the whole peninsula that includes modern Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, and a few other countries. People living in that region now are called Arabs, but Arabs also live in other parts of the Middle East and in northern Africa. They speak a language called Arabic. Most Arabs are Muslims, but some are not.
audition	An audition is a short performance that someone gives to just a few people to show how well they can act, dance, sing, or play an instrument. When someone does an audition, they hope that the people watching will choose them to be in their play, movie, or something like that. Sometimes people have to give an audition in order to be part of a musical group or to get into a special school. For example, if they want to get into a school of music or dance, they might have to give an audition.
bird	an animal with two wings, two feet, and a body covered with feathers. Most birds can fly. Birds are warm-blooded animals with skeletons inside their bodies. Birds lay eggs with hard shells. Robins, eagles, chickens, and ostriches are a few of the many kinds of birds.
black sheep	Someone who is very different from the rest of their family or group is sometimes called "the black sheep." Sometimes the other members of the family or group are ashamed of this person because they do bad things or they are not as successful as they are. Sometimes a person is called a "black sheep" just because they think very differently from the rest of the group and want to have a different kind of life. In a real group of animal sheep, most of the sheep have a light color. Only a few sheep in the group might have a dark color.
carnival	When you go to a carnival, you go to a place where there are rides, games to play, and shows. A carnival usually stays in a town for a few days, and then it travels to another town.
chapter	A chapter is a part of a book. Picture books don't have chapters, but books that tell a long story often do. Each chapter is a few pages long. Big books usually have longer chapters.
chicken pox	When you have chicken pox, you are sick. It is a disease that gives you a fever and spots on your body. The fever lasts a few days, but the spots take longer to go away, and they itch. Children get chicken pox more often than adults do.
colonial	When something is colonial, it has to do with a colony or colonies. A colony is a place that is ruled by a country that is far away. For example, America was a colony of Great Britain a few hundred years ago, and Mexico was a colony of Spain.
concise	saying much in a few words; short and to the point.
convention	A convention is a very large meeting of people who all have the same interest in something. They often have the same type of job or position. They might all be doctors, for example. People go to a convention to learn new things or to decide something important with the others. People often come from a long distance to be at a convention. Conventions usually go on for a few days, so people often stay at hotels. [1/2 definitions]
couple	a few. [1/4 definitions]
course	When someone takes a course, they study a special subject with a group of other people, usually for a few weeks or months. A course is like a group of lessons. People usually take a course at a college. [1/6 definitions]
diarrhea	Diarrhea is a problem with your intestines. You might get it if you eat food that is bad or drink something that contains bacteria, but people usually get it from diseases caused by a virus. Diarrhea gives you pain in your belly and sometimes makes you run to the bathroom! In the bathroom, waste that is full of liquid leaves your body very quickly. The process stops for while but usually returns. Ordinary diarrhea doesn't usually last more than a few hours, but diarrhea can be serious if people have it for a few days or longer because their bodies lose too much water.
dolphin	a mammal that lives in the water. Dolphins look like large fish but they breathe air. They have teeth and a snout that looks like a beak. Most kinds of dolphins live in the ocean. A few kinds live in large rivers in Asia and South America. Dolphins are closely related to porpoises and other toothed whales.
endangered	When a type of animal is endangered, it means that only a few of these animals exist now, and it's possible that there will be no more of these animals in the future. Animals become endangered when they can no longer find the food they need to eat or because there is no more place for them to live. [1/2 definitions]
firm²	A firm is a group of people who do business together, often a small one with only a few people making the big decisions.
freshly	Something that is freshly made or freshly done has been made or done very recently. If cookies are freshly made, it means that they have been made very recently. Maybe they came out of the oven just a few minutes ago. If a house has been freshly painted, the paint on the house is very new. Someone painted it very recently.

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