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| THE MISER IN THE BUSH by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm |
diligent | |
a. characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks | |
miser | |
n. someone who has a strong wish to have money and hates to spend it | |
dwarf | |
n. a creature like a little man with magical powers | |
grant | |
v. give or allow someone something, usually in an official way | |
fiddle | |
n. a violin | |
twig | |
n. a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division) | |
thrush | |
n. songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast | |
caper | |
v. run and jump about in an energetic, happy way | |
brisk | |
a. active, fast, and energetic | |
plight | |
n. an unpleasant condition, especially a serious, sad, or difficult one | |
ponder | |
v. think carefully about something, especially for a noticeable length of time | |
rascal | |
n. one who is playfully mischievous n. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | |
gallows | |
n. (pl) a wooden structure used, especially in the past, to hang criminals from as a form of execution | |
whit | |
n. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | |
vagabond | |
n. a person who has no home and usually no job, and who travels from place to place | |
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