Vocabulary

~1 Whirligig: Is a toy that spins around and is also another word for merry go round

~2gazebo: a small roofed place that has screens on all sides, used for outdoor entertaining and dining.

~3 tonic: a medicine that gives energy or strengthens

~4 accordion:a portable wind instrument having a large bellows for forcing air through small metalreeds, a keyboard for the right hand, and buttons forsounding single bass notes or chords for the left hand

~5 paralyzed: inability to act or move

~6 waltz: a ballroom dance, in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles, taking one step to each beat.

~7 restitutions: reparation made by giving an equivalent for loss, damage, or injury caused

~8 commitment: a pledge or promise to another

~9 appeal: a request for aid, support, sympathy

~10 seclusion: retirement or solitude

~11 glimpsed: a very brief, passing look, sight

~12 plantation: the establishment of a colony or new settlement.

~13 traversed: to pass or move over, through or along

~14 kindelah: is a nickname in yiddish

~15 yiddish: a High German language with a mixture of vocabulary from Hebrew and the Slavic languages, written in Hebrew letters, and spoken mainly by Jews in eastern and central Europe and by Jewish emigrants from these regions and their descendants.

~ 16 dawned: the first appearance of daylight in the morning

~17 declared: announce officially

~18 overture: an opening or initiating move toward negotiations, an agreement

~19 fortunately: receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources

~ 20 appendix: the short tube at the bottom of a balloon bag, by which the intake and release of buoyant gas is controlled.