| A | B |
| hit the road | when you leave for a trip, you might say you are going to: |
| lend a hand | to help someone |
| on thin ice | to be in trouble |
| aficionado | a fan who knows a great deal about something |
| bonanza | something that is valuable or makes lots of money |
| boomerang | when something boomerangs, it comes back to the person who started it |
| bouquet | a bunch of flowers |
| cuisine | a style of cooking (food). |
| lilac | a pale purple flower |
| tote | to carry something |
| tycoon | a person with a very successful business |
| boycott | to protest by refusing to do business with or buy from a store, company, person, or nation |
| Braille | an alphabet made from raised dots used by people with blindness |
| Fahrenheit | name of a temperature scale |
| jumbo | very large |
| maverick | an independent-minded person |
| pasteurization | a process of killing bacteria by heating a liquid such as milk |
| saxophone | a wind instrument |
| watt | a unit of electrical power |