Vocab Level A Unit 5

Keen and Alert; Clever

• Headstrong

• Acute

• Numb

• Smug

One who is an ______ observer of human nature may notice subtle changes in people's behavior.

• Tarry

• Refute

• Acute

• Bungle

Speech that is loud and threatening; rant

• commentary

• pacify

• fray

• bluster

Dad's lecture is all __________, but beneath it all, he's really a kind-hearted man.

• bluster

• fray

• tarry

• eerie

To blunder or mess up

• Bungle

• Setback

• Headstrong

• Pacify

If we _____ this project, we may never get another chance to prove ourselves as a worthy team.

• fray

• tarry

• bungle

• remorse

A series of notes clarifying or explaining something, a description

• fidelity

• commentary

• synopsis

• inhabitant

Our spiritual leader gave us a _____on the true meaning of charity.

• commentary

• eerie

• fidelity

• numb

the length of time

• facet

• refute

• duration

• acute

Even though the story was hard to follow, my friends decided to stay for the ____________ of the opera.

• fidelity

• bungle

• inhabitant

• duration