6th Vocabulary Unit 5

with a sharp point; keen and alert; rising quickly to a high point

• acute
• facet
• tarry
• fray

to talk to or act in a noisy and threatening way; to blow in stormy gust

• bluster
• bungle
• pacify
• ravenous

to act or work clumsily and awkwardly; to ruin something through clumsiness

• bungle
• bluster
• headstrong
• refute

a series of notes clarifying or explaining something; an expression of opinion

• commentary
• fidelity
• synopsis
• smug

the length of time that something continues or lasts

• duration
• eerie
• numb
• tarry

causing fear because of strangeness; weird, mysterious

• fray
• errie
• bungle
• inhabitant

one aspect or side of a subject or problem; one of the cut sufaces of a gem

• pacify
• facet
• acute
• refute

the state of being faithful; accuracy in details, exactness

• duration
• fidelity
• synopsis
• smug

a brawl, a noisy quarrel; to wear away by rubbing; make ragged or worn; to strain

• facet
• fray
• ravenous
• setback

willful, stubborn

• numb
• headstrong
• eerie
• remorse