6th Grade Vocabulary Unit 5

with a sharp point; keen and alert; sharp and severe; rising quickly to a high point and lasting for a short time

• acute

• facet

• numb

• eerie

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

• fidelity

• pacify

• bungle

• bluster

causing fear because of strangeness; weird, mysterious

• fray

• headstrong

• duration

• eerie

the length of time that something continues or lasts

• refute

• duration

• smug

• tarry

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

• acute

• pacify

• facet

• setback

willful, stubborn

• headstrong

• numb

• commentary

• bungle

to prove incorrect

• ravenous

• refute

• synopsis

• bluster

to talk or act in a noisy and threatening way; to blow in stormy gusts; speech that is loud and threatening

• duration

• fray

• bluster

• remorse

to delay leaving; to linger, wait; to remain or stay for a while

• inhabitant

• smug

• facet

• tarry

overly self-satisfied, self-righteous

• refute

• remorse

• smug

• eerie