This short story is about a young girl who is sent to the market by her mother to sell rice during a famine. On her way, she meets an old man who asks her for one grain of rice, which she gives to him. When she returns home, she discovers that the single grain of rice has multiplied into a full bag, ensuring that her family will have enough to eat.

1. “One Grain of Rice”

2. trickle a thin stream We only got a trickle of rain.

3. plentifully in great quantity Flowers grew plentifully in the field.

4. implored begged The man implored the computer to work correctly.

5. famine widespread lack of food, causing many to starve Lack of crops could create a famine.

6. decreed ordered formally; commanded The judge decreed for all to be quiet in the court .