Unit 24

UNIT 24 WORD LIST bowl A bowl is a dish with a round deep shape. I put the fruit in the fruit bowl. cooking Cooking food involves making it ready to eat. I really enjoy cooking, especially Italian food. dense If something is dense, it has a lot of things close together. I easily became lost in the dense forest. dignity Dignity is the ability to be calm and worthy of respect. When his company went out of business, he faced it with dignity. dominate To dominate someone or something is to control them. The loud man dominated the conversation. earthen If something is earthen, it is made of clay. The house's roof was made of earthen tiles. hostile If someone is hostile, they are angry and unfriendly. We were happy to move away from our hostile neighbor. incorrect If something is incorrect, it is wrong. Your answer is incorrect. You need to correct it. intake Your intake of food is the amount of food you take into your body. The doctor said I needed to increase my intake of fruits and vegetables. likewise If someone does something likewise, they do the same thing as someone else. If Joe is not going to school so he can go swimming, I want to do likewise.

machine A machine is made by people and does work for us. The machine was broken. medication Medication is medicine or drugs given to people who are sick. The doctor gave me medication to treat my illness. obscure If something is obscure, it is not well known. The old man travels the world in search of obscure books. oppress To oppress someone means to rule over them in a cruel and unfair way. Free speech had been oppressed in his country. peel To peel fruits and vegetables is to remove their skin. He peeled the apple before eating it. prescription A prescription is permission from a doctor to get medicine. The doctor gave me a prescription for my medication. progress When you make progress, you get better at what you are doing. There are clear signs of progress. sandy Sandy means covered with sand. I love walking on a sandy beach. shortage Shortage comes from short and means not having enough. During the dry season, there was a shortage of water. skillful If someone is skillful at something, they are very good at doing it. The carpenter is very skillful at building houses.

Becoming a Healer Years ago, I worked at a small health clinic in a remote country. I had gone there to treat an obscure syndrome. It attacked people's lungs, causing them to need a machine to breathe. I was trying out a new medication to treat these people instead of using the machine. If I was successful, I would become famous. Everything was going fine until war broke out in a nearby country. Many people from that country fled the hostile invading army. The army wanted to dominate the people, but the people didn't want to be oppressed. So they walked hundreds of miles across the dry, sandy land to get away. Some of these people came to our clinic for treatment. I talked with them and learned of their difficulties. They did not beg or complain. I was impressed by their dignity. There was one woman. I will never forget. Her son suffered from a shortage of food and stomach pain, and she didn't know what to do. Neither did I. I was not skillful at treating lack of food. Nonetheless, when I saw her sadness, I knew I had to help her son. The woman had been feeding her son bread and water. She had an incorrect belief that it would be enough for him. However, I knew that he needed to eat vegetables, too. So I took her outside and showed her a dense patch of plants you could eat. I taught her how to dig up the roots, peel them, and cook them for her son. I explained that she should increase her son's intake of these vegetables. Likewise, she should try to get him some meat once a week to help him regain his strength. I sent her off with a prescription for some pain medicine, but she also left my office with some new cooking skills. This was progress. A few weeks later, she returned to tell me her son was healthy again. As thanks, she gave me a beautiful earthen bowl. I never became famous, but I kept that bowl to remind me what it truly means to heal someone.