| 5000 Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 319 | |||
| Word | Type | Used in a Sentence | Synonym |
| litter | noun | There is litter in the street. | trash |
| verb | Do not litter the highway. | clutter | |
| little | adj. | He was a little boy. | young |
| adj. | We only have a little time. | brief | |
| adj. | He was a little man. | small in size | |
| verb | I know little of his history. | some but not much | |
| adv. | He sleeps little during the night. | not much | |
| live | verb | We live in Oregon on a farm. | dwell |
| verb | He lives on rice and fish. | survives | |
| adj. | We want a live fish. | not dead | |
| adj. | He touched a live wire and died. | energized | |
| lively | adj. | It was a lively play we saw. | brisk |
| adj. | We had a lively audience. | enthusiastic | |