A Chair for My Mother Vocabulary Review

Vocabulary and language practice flashcards based on the story 'A Chair for My Mother' by Vera B. Williams, focusing on key terms, irregular plurals, and word recognition.

Waitress

A woman whose job is to serve customers at their tables in a restaurant, like the mother at the Blue Tile Diner.

Blue Tile Diner

The specific name of the restaurant where the mother works and the narrator helps by filling ketchups.

Josephine

The boss of the diner who pays the narrator for jobs like peeling onions for onion soup.

Tips

The extra change the mother earns from customers and empties from her purse to put into the jar.

Bargain

A purchase made at a lower price, like when Grandma saves money on tomatoes or bananas to put in the jar.

Charcoal and ashes

What was left of the house after the orange flames from the big fire spoiled everything inside.

Aunt Ida and Uncle Sandy

The family members who let the narrator and her mother stay with them and helped bring the new chair home in a pickup truck.

Feet

The plural form of foot; the part of the mother's body that hurts every day after she finishes her job as a waitress.

Children

The plural form of child; the neighbor next door gave the family a bed that his had used when they were little.

Ten-dollar bills

The specific money the bank gave the family in exchange for the wrapped nickels, dimes, and quarters.

Velvet

The soft material covering the wonderful, fat sofa armchair that has roses all over it.

Goldilocks

The character in the Three Bears story that Grandma felt like while trying out chairs at four different furniture stores.

Beautiful

A word with the suffix -ful used to describe Grandpa's rug and the sofa armchair the family dreamed of buying.