gain =

• You will have more after this.
• Becoming more than before.
• Doing more than another person or thing.

game =

• (See 9-29).
• Kinds of animals that live in big places where people do not control them, but at some times people will eat some of them.

garage =

• Building where people put a vehicle when they are not using it.
• Building where people change the damaged parts of a vehicle and make it good to use.

garden = Place where people cause plants to grow near buildings where people live.

garment = One piece of clothing.

gas =

• (See 5-01).
• Kind of liquid that people put inside machines where it burns and makes the machine move.

gate = People need to move through this narrow place to move from one place to another. You can put something solid inside this narrow place to prevent people moving through it.

gather =

• Cause many things in many different places to move to the same place.
• Think something is true because of what you saw or heard.

general, generally =

• Things you can say that are true about most of these kinds of things.
• Something you can say about most or all parts of this thing or group.
• Something that is true at most times and in most places.
• Saying something about the more important parts, but not the less important parts.
• Most people are like this.
• Near.

generous = Someone who gives much to help other people.

gentle = Careful not to hurt someone or damage something.

gentleman, gentlemen = Man who does things that are good for other people, says things that are true, and tries not to do things that are bad.

get, got, gotten =

• Someone gives you something.
• You have or control something now that you did not have or control before.
• Something happens to you.
• Move to a place.
• Become.
• Cause.
• Know what something means or what causes something to happen.

gift = Something someone gives you because they want you to have it. They do not expect you to do something they want because of this.

girl = Young female person.

give, gave, given =

• (See 8-13).
• Do something to someone.

glad = You feel happy thinking about something.

glass = This is something solid you can see through, because light moves through it. To make this, people cause many very small stone pieces to become hot and liquid, and this becomes solid when it is less hot. People use this to make flat things that are parts of buildings, containers that can contain liquids, and things people look through to help them see.

glory =

• When many people think and say something you did was very good.
• Very beautiful.

glue = Something people use to connect things, like this: People put this kind of liquid between two things, and when it becomes dry, it becomes solid and connects these two things.

go, goes, going, went, gone =

• (See 11-20).
• Do something.
• Happen.
• Become.

goat = Kind of animal that is like a sheep, but eats many kinds of plants. This kind of animal has two long hard narrow things on top of its head and long hair below its mouth. These animals can easily move up on top of big stones.

god = (See 11-09).

gold = Yellow metal that people use to make metal pieces of money and small beautiful things that people put around parts of their body. You need much money to buy this kind of metal.

golden = Something that contains or looks like gold.

good =

• (See 2-12).
• This helps someone.
• Able to do something.
• Can use this to do something you want.
• Much.

goodbye = Something you say to someone when you will not be in the same place after this time and you will not be able to say things to this person for some time after this.

goods = Things that someone can buy and move to another place.

govern = What a government does when it controls a country.

government = (See 8-18).

grace = What someone does is graceful.

graceful =

• When this thing moves, it looks beautiful and easy to do, compared with other moving things.
• When you choose to do things that are good for other people, knowing some of these people did not do things that were good for you.

gradual = For a long time this thing changes many times. After all these changes, this thing is not the same as before. Each small change makes it become more like it will be after all the changes and less like it was before all the changes.

grain =

• (See 10-28).
• Something that looks like many long straight marks on the surface of a piece of a plant.
• Very small piece.

gram = One thousand of this weight is the same as one kilogram.

grammar = The rules that say what kinds of words and word parts and word groups you need to use when you make sentences.

grand =

• Very good.
• Very important.
• Very big.

grandfather = The male parent of one of your parents.

grandmother = The female parent of one of your parents.

grandparent = One of the parents of your parents.

grass = Thin narrow green plants that grow from the ground. There are many animals that eat these plants. Many of these animals have four legs and do not eat other animals. These plants are not good for people to eat.

grateful = Someone chose to do something good for you. Because of this, you feel good when you think about this person and what they did. You want this person to know you feel like this.

grave = Place where someone put a dead body into a hole in the ground and covered it using pieces of the ground.

great =

• Very good.
• Very much.
• Very important.
• Very big.

green = (See 7-02).

greet = You did not see someone or say something to them for a long time, but now you say something to them to tell them you are happy you can see them or say something to them now.

greeting = What you say or do when you greet someone.

grey, (gray) = The colour of this thing is like the colour you see when you mix the colours black and white.

grief = You feel very sad, like you feel when someone you love dies.

grieve = You feel grief for some time.

ground =

• (See 6-03).
• What causes someone to do something.

group = (See 5-08).

grow, grew, grown =

• (See 5-21).
• Become.

growth = When something grows.

guard = You have some things in a place, and you do not want people to damage or move these things. Because of this, you look at these things and this place for a long time, because you want to stop people who try to touch or damage or move these things.

guess = You try to say something that is true, but you do not know. You think maybe it is true or likely, but maybe it is not true.

guest = At most times, you do things like eat and sleep in a place that belongs to you, but now for a short time you do these things in a place that belongs to some other person. This other person says you can do this.

guidance = When you guide someone or something.

guide =

• Someone wants to cause something to happen, and you show them where to move and tell them what to do to cause this to happen.
• You control where something moves.

guilt = Being or feeling guilty.

guilty =

• You did something that people think is bad to do, and now you feel bad and very sad when you think about this.
• You did something that the government rules say you are not allowed to do.

gun = People make this thing that has a long metal tube, and a person can use it to do this: This thing causes a small round piece of metal to move quickly through the tube and then through the air to hit something.

habit =

• You do the same thing many times, and you do not think about it much when you do it, because you do it often. Many other people do not do this thing often like you do.
• Kind of clothing you use each time you do the same kind of thing.

habitual = Doing something that is a habit.

hair = (See 8-05).

hairy = Having much hair.

half, halves = This is one of the two parts of this one thing, and each of these parts is the same as the other.

hall =

• Long place inside a building that people can move through to move into other parts of the building.
• Big place inside a building that many people can be inside.

hammer = This is something people make. One end of this thing is big and heavy more than the other end. Using one hand to hold the less heavy end, you can move this thing and cause the heavy end to hit something.

hand = (See 7-08).

handkerchief = Small piece of cloth or paper that people use to dry their nose or eyes.

handle =

• Control things that are happening.
• Use your hands to touch or move something.
• Long part of something that someone uses a hand to hold.

hang, hung, hanged = Something holds the top part of this thing above the ground. The bottom part of this thing does not touch the ground. The bottom part can move towards the sides, but not far, because the top part is held in one place and it cannot move down towards the ground.

happen = (See 2-05).

happy = (See 10-13).

hard =

• (See 7-18).
• Difficult to do.
• Very much.
• Likely to hurt someone.

harden = Become hard.

hardly = Some, but not much. Very much less than much.

hardship = Some bad things happen to you, and because of this, many of the things you need to do become difficult for some time.

harm =

• Do something bad for someone.
• Damage someone or something.

harmful = Causing or likely to cause harm.

harmless = Not able or not likely to hurt someone or cause damage.

hasty = You do something very quickly, because you want to do another thing after this.

hat = Kind of clothing you use to cover the top part of your head.

hate =

• When you think about a person and what this person does, it makes you feel very angry.
• You very much do not enjoy doing this or being near this thing.
• You very much do not want this to happen.
• When you do this or think about doing this, it feels very bad for you.

hatred = What you feel when you hate someone or something.

have, has, had =

• (See 2-02).
• Part of.
• What someone can know and say about this.
• You control and can use this.
• You need to do this.
• At a time before now.
• If.

he = (See 7-12).

head =

• (See 6-23).
• The part of something that controls what the other parts do.

health =

• When you are healthy.
• What you know about someone when you know they are more or less healthy.

healthy = (See 8-24).

hear, heard = (See 1-28).

heart =

• The part of your body that causes blood to move through all parts of your body.
• The centre part, or the part that is more important than all others.
• What someone feels and thinks about.

heat =

• When something is hot.
• Cause something to become hot.

heaven = Many people think a place like this exists: God is in this place. Some part of a person can live in this place after their body dies.

heavy =

• (See 5-22).
• Difficult.
• Very much.

heel = The back part of your foot.

height =

• Distance between the top surface and bottom surface.
• Distance between the ground and a thing or place above the ground.
• When something is more than other things or more than at other times.

hello = (See 12-28).

help = (See 8-22).

helpful = Someone or something that helps you.

hen = Adult female bird.

her = (See 7-13).

here =

• (See 2-21).
• At this time.

hers = This thing belongs to her.

herself = This same female person or animal: the same one who does this and not others.

hide, hid, hidden =

• Put something in a place where other people cannot easily see it or find it.
• Cover something because you do not want people to see it.

high =

• (See 6-19).
• Distance between the top and bottom.
• Much more than many other things or other times.
• Very good or important.

hill = On top of this place, the ground surface is above the ground surface on each side of this place.

him = (See 7-12).

himself = This same male person or animal: the same one who does this and not others.

hire =

• You promise to give someone money if they allow you to use something that belongs to them for some time.
• You promise to give someone money if they do some work that you want them to do.

his = (See 7-12).

historical = Things that happened or existed a long time before now.

history =

• True things someone says about what happened in a place a long time before now.
• All things that happened to these people or things before now.

hit = (See 6-24).

hold, held =

• (See 4-06).
• Cause this not to change or not to move from this place for some time.

hole = (See 5-03).

holiday =

• Day when many people do not work, because people want to use this day to think about something important.
• Several days when many people work, but you do not work because you want to use these days to do some things you enjoy. This is not something you do each group of seven days.

hollow =

• This solid thing contains a place inside where there is air, but not something solid.
• Hole inside something.

holy = Something very good that belongs to a god and that this god uses.

home =

• Place or building where you live and eat and sleep many times for a long time.
• Place where you lived when you were young.

honest = You do not try to cause someone to think something is true if you know it is not true.

honesty = When someone is honest.

honour, (honor) =

• People say this and think this about you: You choose to do things that are good.
• You do what you promise to do.

honourable, (honorable) = People think the things you choose to do are good.

hook = Narrow thing used to hold or pull something. To make this thing, people can change the shape of a narrow piece of metal and make it like the bottom part of a circle. You can push one high end of this narrow thing into the top part of something solid. Then, when you lift the other end of this narrow thing, it holds and lifts the top part of this solid thing.

hope = You want something to happen, and you think it can happen, and because of this, you feel good thinking maybe it will happen.

hopeful = Feeling or causing someone to feel hope.

hopeless = You want something to happen, but you do not think it will happen, because you do not think it can happen.

horizon = Place you can see very far from you where it looks like the sky is touching the ground or water.

horn =

• Some kinds of animals have these things: two hard parts that grow out from the top of the head. Each of these hard parts has a narrow end.
• Long tube that people can use to make music and loud sounds. Your mouth touches one end of this tube, and you push air from inside your body through this thing to make sounds.

horse = Kind of big animal that has four legs and four hard feet. This animal does not eat other animals. Long hair grows from the top of its head and from the back part of its body where its back legs are connected. People use these animals to pull or carry big things. People can sit on top of these animals when they move.

hospital = Building where people help other people who have a disease or damaged body to make them become more healthy. Some of these people who have a disease or damaged body can be here more than one day.

host =

• When people are in a place for a short time, this person gives them food and causes things to be here that they are likely to enjoy seeing or hearing.
• Very many.

hot =

• (See 6-26).
• Something that causes people to feel more and want something more than at most other times.

hotel = Business that has a building where people can sleep. People give the business money to sleep inside this building one or more days.

hour = (See 10-10).

hourly = Happening each hour.

house =

• (See 12-27).
• A big building where many people do the same things.

how =

• (See 12-19).
• Saying if something happens that is good for or bad for someone.
• You want someone to tell you what this is like.
• Very.

human = Person.

humorous = Something that makes you laugh.

humour, (humor) =

• Something that makes people laugh.
• The kinds of things you feel because of what you are thinking.
• Someone says something you think is not true, or they tell you to do something you do not want to do. But you want to make them happy. Because of this, you do what they want, and you do not tell them what they said is not true.

hundred = (See 8-30).

hundredth =

• The one of a hundred that is after all the others.
• One of a hundred parts of one thing. Each part is the same.

hunger = Feeling hungry.

hungry = What you feel when you want to eat food.

hunt =

• Try to find something.
• Try to find an animal, move near it, and hold it or cause it to die.

hurry =

• Moving quickly.
• Trying to do something more quickly than at most other times when you do the same kind of thing.

hurt = (See 7-17).

husband = The man that a woman is married to.

hut = Small building that is easy to make.