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story : Rip Van Winkle
author : Washington Irving

vocabulary
1.fearful : feeling afraid; showing fear or anxiety
2.cranky : irritable
3.insisted : demand forcefully to have something
4.ramble : walk for pleasure, typically without a definite route
5.frowned : furrow one's brow in an expression of disapproval, displeasure, or concentration
6.chore : a routine task, esp. a household one
7.mending : things to be repaired by sewing or darning
8.ditches : a narrow channel dug in the ground, typically used for drainage alongside a road or the edge of a field
9.shrugged : raise (one's shoulders) slightly and momentarily to express doubt, ignorance, or indifference
10.ward : protect
11.gesture : a movement of part of the body, esp. a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning
12.meadow : a piece of grassland, esp. one used for hay
13.shrill : to make an unpleasant high loud sound
14.torrent : a large amount of water moving very quickly
15.enormous : extremely large
16.slink : to move somewhere very quietly and slowly, especially because you are ashamed or do not want to be seen
17.snarl : an act of speaking in an angry or bad-tempered way; the sound you make when you are angry, in pain, etc
18.perk : to become or to make somebody become more cheerful or lively, especially after they have been ill/sick or sad
19.portrait : a painting, drawing or photograph of a person, especially of the head and shoulders
20.fudge : to avoid giving clear and accurate information, or a clear answer

Comment and thought
RIP VAN WINKLE is a famous tale written by Washington Erving,telling about a story in which an old man named Rip drank some beverage and fell into asleep for 20 years.After that,he returned to the villege where he came from,and found everything changed.People talked about revolution and election,and he has no idea of what that meaned.