My New School Bag – Short Story for English Listening Beginners

noun

1. a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles

2. an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck

3. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)

Synonym: pouch

4. a small isolated group of people

e.g. they were concentrated in pockets inside the city
the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance

5. a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly

Synonym: air pocketair hole

6. a supply of money

e.g. they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets

7. a hollow concave shape made by removing something

Synonym: scoop

8. (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left

e.g. the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike

9. an enclosed space

e.g. the trapped miners found a pocket of air

Synonym: pouchsacsack