Unit 1 Lesson 5 Vocabulary

hitting or striking at an angle instead of directly

• wincing

• glancing

• rasping

• skittered

moved in a quick and shaky way

• flue

• segment

• tendrils

• skittered

making a pained expression

• tensed

• registered

• wincing

• segment

thin, curly pieces of material

• rasping

• tendrils

• painstaking

• quantity

careful and thorough

• painstaking

• registered

• pointed

• glancing

made one's muscles tight

• wincing

• glancing

• tensed

• rasping

the number or amount

• wincing

• quantity

• pointed

• tendrils

a passage through which smoke flows

• rasping

• registered

• segment

• flue

rough; screeching

• rasping

• painstaking

• tensed

• wincing

a part of something

• tendrils

• quantity

• flue

• segment