This document contains vocabulary words and their definitions from Zlata's Diary. It includes words related to war such as ambulance, madness, massacre, negotiate, peace, suffering, shells, sorrow, and dismembered bodies. It also includes emotional words like disappointment, beside ourselves, lump in throat, knot in tummy, and tearing our hair out. Other words defined are grown-ups, nag, madhouse, outwit, wind up, colleagues, expelled, berserk, walking my feet off, and scattered.

1. from “Zlata’s Diary”
Vocabulary
Shining Star, Book A
UNIT 4, Part 2

2. VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT
p. 155

3. ambulance
• An ambulance drove the sick and injured
people to the hospital.
• a special vehicle that drives sick and
injured people to the hospital

4. madness
• The war killed many people and achieved
little. It was madness.
• crazy times; chaotic

5. massacre
• Hundreds of people were killed in the
massacre.
• mass killings (when many people died
from an attack)

6. negotiate
• The two presidents must negotiate to end
the war between their countries.
• meet and discuss a problem

7. peace
• People were happy when the war was
over and there was peace again.
• no war; no fighting

8. suffering
• War causes a lot of pain and suffering for
many people.
• difficult, hard times

9. from “Zlata’s Diary”
pp. 156 - 161

10. shells
• bombs

11. sorrow
• sadness

12. grown-ups
• adults

13. Emergency Clinic
• a place to go for emergency medical
attention

14. nag
• someone who asks for something again
and again

15. disappointed
• sad because you expected something
different

16. were beside ourselves
• were very worried

17. I’ve got a lump in my throat
• I feel like crying

18. knot in my tummy
• bad feeling about something

19. madhouse
• a place where everyone seems crazy

20. tearing our hair out
• feeling very worried

21. dismembered bodies
• bodies with no arms or legs

22. the “kids”
• Zlata’s slang for the politicians

23. outwit
• be more clever than someone; trick

24. wind up
• end up with; finally be

25. colleagues
• people you work with

26. expelled
• forced to leave

27. berserk
• crazy

28. walking my feet off
• walking a lot

29. Czerny, Bach, Mozart, and Chopin
• famous composers who wrote piano
music

30. I’ll give it my all
• I’ll do my best

31. for ages
• for a long time

32. the shortage of
• not enough

33. back to earth
• not dreaming; back to reality

34. scattered
• in many different places

35. latter
• the second of two things mentioned
• Example:
– There were hot dogs and hamburgers. I
preferred the latter.

36. wrinkles
• lines in the face