Just Some Words (Analysis 1)

The Word	Guessed Meaning	Dictionary Meaning	Am I right?
warden	Someone who rules a place, like a manager or a director	a person who is responsible for a particular place and whose job is to make sure its rules are obeyed
woodpecker	An animal that lives in the trees (If only if only the woodpecker sighs/The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer)	a bird with a long beak that it uses to make holes in trees
holster	A kind of gun (‘I’m not going to shoot you.’ He tapped his holster.)	a leather object for carrying a small gun, that is worn on a belt
cot	An uncomfortable bed made of metal	A camp bed
torment	Cause pain, torture (A bully names Derrick Dunne used to torment Stanley.)	to deliberately treat someone cruelly by annoying them or hurting them
vacancy	A free place (Vacancies don’t last long at Camp Green Lake.)	a room in a hotel or building that is not being used and is available for someone to stay in:
defective	Something that is damaged or broken, not able to work good (He wondered if he had a defective shovel.)	not made properly, or not working properly
pint	Small, tiny (They each got a pint carton.)	a unit for measuring an amount of liquid, especially beer or milk. In Britain a pint is equal to 0.568 litres, and in the US it is equal to 0.473 litres
sow	Pig in old English (My sow gave birth to a litter of piglets yesterday.)	a fully grown female pig
evaporate	Turn into gas (The water… evaporetaed quickly in the sun.)	if a liquid evaporates, or if heat evaporates it, it changes into a gas