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Glossary

Bon Appetit! This is French for ‘enjoy your meal,’ and if your translate the two words they are ‘good appetite.’ Appetite is the feeling your body has when it is ready to eat.

cut: when you ‘cut’ someone, it means you hurt his or her feelings

Caught up: To get involved with, to participate in something that you did not mean to do and then it gets hard to stop doing it

Compliment This is saying something nice, or is the nice thing said. “That is a very pretty dress,” is a compliment. If you compliment someone, you might say to her, “That is a very pretty dress.”

Digestion When you eat, you chew your food and it goes into your stomach and gets used by your body to give you energy and help your body grow. When you get a stomach ache or feel like throwing up, that means you are having trouble with your digestion. Some ways to help food digest (move through your body properly): eat smaller amounts, chew slowly and take your time, try not to eat a lot of sugar. It is a good idea to sit down and eat, then go back to playing. Eating and playing or running around is not good for digestion.

Dining This is another word for saying, ‘eating.’

gracious: means kind and polite

Gross Really disgusting and not nice to look at.

petty: to be petty is to be small (in your thinking) and mean

Rude Means bad manners—saying something or doing something that will hurt somebody’s feelings. A princess does not like to hurt people’s feelings—she wants people to feel comfortable and happy when she is around.

smart aleck: a smart-aleck is someone who says rude and mean things, or does rude and mean things and thinks they are funny to say and do these things

snob: a snob is someone who likes to think he or she is better than others, which can make other people feel bad

tiara: is a kind of a crown which does not go all the way around in a circle. Many princesses and other fancy ladies where them. They have sparkly jewels on them (the jewels can be made of glass or other things), and are very pretty. If you are dancing, it is hard to keep a tiara on your head.

tutor a tutor is someone who helps someone else learn something. When you tutor somebody, you are helping them learn

Untidy Tidy is neat and clean. Untidy would be messy and dirty or sticky