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You stare at someone or something when you look directly at them for a long time without
blinking much.
It is generally considered rude to stare.
A word that sounds the same as stare but is spelt differently is
stair.
You are
startled when something
surprises you and makes you "jump". The young
horse in the picture has been startled by the
dog.
Steal means to
take something that doesn't
belong to you, especially
property that clearly belongs to someone else.
The man in the picture has just had his French fry stolen by a seagull.
A
hill is
steep if it is very difficult to
climb because of the
angle of the
ground. Steep slopes are great fun to ride
bicycles down, because you can get so
fast.
The
house in the picture has been built on a steep,
misty hill.
A plant or animal is
sterile if it cannot produce offspring. Something that has no living things on it or that cannot sustain living things is also called sterile. Medical equipment is usually provided in sealed packets that keep it sterile.
Another word for sterile is
barren. The opposite of sterile is
fertile.
Sticks is the plural of
stick, or means that something is
sticky. For example, "
it sticks to the fridge!"
Something is
sticky if other things get attached to it. Sweet things are often very sticky.
Glue is sticky.
Stickytape is sticky!
You are
still if you are not
moving. The two people in the picture are dressed up as
statues and are being very
still.
Stirred is the past tense of
stir.
You
stoke a fire when you put more
fuel on it, to keep it
burning.
You
stop doing something when you don't do it anymore. You can also stop someone else from doing something, or stop an action and end it early. For example,
"she brought a stop to the daily meetings".
The opposite of stop is
go or
start.
A store is a place where you can go to
buy things. Another word for store is
shop.
It is also a verb, that means to put something into
storage.
Something is straight if it has no
bends, curves or
corners in it. The
road in the picture is long and
straight.
Something is
strange if it is
unusual and not what you would normally expect.
The opposite of strange is
normal or
ordinary.
The picture is of a very strange looking vegetable.
A stray animal is any
domestic animal that is wandering around with no
owner. In the city stray animals are usually
cats or
dog but larger animals like
cows can also go astray.
You
stretch something when you
pull it so it becomes longer and thinner. When you do warm-up excercises you
stretch the muscles in your body, so people call them stretching exercises.
The
cat in the picture is having a good stretch.
You
strew something if you
scatter it around, for example
"she strew hay in the stables". Once you strew something, it is
strewn.
