Words about words

Kneading is a way of mixing ingredients together to form dough. Kneading warms the dough slightly, and breaks the proteins in the flour down into gluten strands. When dough is kneaded enough it has a smooth, elastic texture. Dough that hasn't been kneaded enough won't rise as well when it is cooking, and will be hard instead of soft and fluffy.

You knock on something with your knuckles to make a loud noise. People knock on doors to let the people inside know they are there so they can be let in. To save your knuckles, a lot of doors have doorknockers or doorbells.

Laid is the past tense of lay. For example, "the chicken laid an egg".

The larval stage of a creature's development is its earliest stage. Many insects have a larval stage, and the larvae can look very different to the adult of the same insect.

Later is a word that means at a time after now. It can describe something that happens in the future.

Later is often used in daily talks, schedules, and instructions to show the order of events.

You lay something down when you place it into a resting position. You lay yourself down before you go to sleep. The picture is of someone laying a brick.

Someone is lazy if they don't want to do anything, and so do very little instead.
A similar word to lazy is idle.

lan Leap is another word for jump, particularly a big jump. The cat in the picture is leaping off a building.

Led is the past tense of lead. The man in the picture has led the camel along.

You lick things by wiping your tongue on them. Children usually lick lollypops or icecream and dogs lick people's faces.