Words about words

Vocal describes something that relates to your voice. If someone calls you a vocal person, that means you express your thoughts and emotions freely. Singing is a form of vocalization.

Wading is walking through water. Usually you wade through shallow water that is less than waist deep. Any deeper and it would be easier to swim.

Waiting is passing time until something happens. You often have to wait at a doctor's surgery, and sometimes you need to wait in a queue for something. People usually sit and read or just do nothing at all when they are waiting.

Something is waning when it is decreasing in size, intensity, strength or power. For example, "his health was waning".
The picture is of the waning moon. The opposite of waning is waxing.

Warped means that something has been deformed or damaged due to weather, temperature or force.

You waste something when you have it, but you don't use it, or you use it for less important things. Someone might waste their money by buying lots of pairs of shoes and then complaining later they have no money for other things.
Waste is also leftovers, or something that is no longer needed and becomes trash. Anything you throw away is waste.

Something is watertight if it can hold a liquid like water without losing any of it.
Common things that are watertight include boats, buckets, cups and bottles.

Wealthy is another word for rich. If you're wealthy, you have a lot of money.

lan Weaving is threading something in and out between something else. Baskets are woven, as is most cloth that isn't stretchy. You have to look very closely at cloth to see that it is woven.
Anything that looks like it is woven is said to have a woven or basketweave pattern.

You weigh something to find out how heavy it is. Weight is a measure of how much gravity pulls on something.
Not to be confused with way or whey.