stock • yard n., yard where cattle, sheep, pigs, or horses are kept before being slaughtered for market. After seeing cattle crowded into pens in the stockyards before they were slaughtered, Maya decided to become a vegetarian.

mi • grate v., move from one country or place to another; move from one climate to another in regular cycles. We listened to the honking of the geese as they flew by, migrating south for the winter.