Vocabulary G6 U2-4

Match the following

• gadget (n)

• to attempt to repair or improve something

• to tinker (v)

• person who was the first to create a device

• inventor (n)

• great delight

• glee (n)

• leaning forward with raised shoulders, or bending your back into a rounded shape

• hunched (adj)

• small machine or piece of electronic equipment

Match the following

• deaf (adj)

• (of cloth or clothes) old and torn

• genius (n)

• to complain about something in a quiet voice

• to mutter (v)

• very smart person

• to scrape (v)

• to push or pull a sharp object across something

• ragged (adj)

• unable to hear

Match the following

• to dare (v)

• to be unafraid of doing something

• sombre (adj)

• serious and sad

• boulder (n)

• having a sharp, pointed shape

• jagged (adj)

• very large, round rock

• to glimmer (v)

• (in a dark place) to shine weakly or be lit up weakly; to have a dim light

Match the following

• to shudder (v)

• dark

• gloomy (adj)

• place for animals to eat grass

• whip (n)

• vehicle pulled by a horse or horses

• pasture (n)

• to shake because of fear

• carriage (n)

• tool to make a horse go faster

Match the following

• deformed (adj)

• not the usual shape

• glistening (adj)

• dead body of an animal

• ghastly (adj)

• very shocking or horrible

• carcass (n)

• wet and shiny

• hideous (adj)

• very ugly, disgusting

Match the following

• ferocious (adj)

• long jump

• bound (n)

• small dog

• saliva (n)

• very aggressive or violent

• tummy (n)

• (informal) stomach

• terrier (n)

• liquid made by the mouth