Unit 5 Vocabulary

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

to talk or act in a noisy and threatening way; to blow n stormy gusts.

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

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

the length of time that something continues or lasts.

causing fear because of strangeness; weird, mysterious.

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

the state of being faithful; accuracy in details, exactness.

     a brawl, a noisy quarrel; (v.) to war away by rubbing; make ragged or worn; to strain, irritate.

willful, stubborn