| 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) |
Non-defining relative clause
Non-defining relative clauses are placed after nouns which are definite already.
The adjective clause which does not define the noun before it but gives additional information about the noun is called the non-defining relative clause.