Vocabulary Unit 3

A narrow horizontal surface.

• Brink
• Expanse
• Ledge
• Muster

To eat hungrily and quickly.

• Devour
• Upbraiding
• Scraps
• Halt

Involving a great sense of urgency or hopelessness.

• Desperate
• Commended
• Upbraiding
• Taunting

Leaping or bounding energetically (typically refers to animals or birds in flight).

• Curveting
• Herring
• Ascended
• Mustering

Criticizing or scolding someone severely.

• Upbraiding
• Curveting
• Maddened
• Preening

Mocking or teasing someone in a hurtful manner.

• Beckoning
• Taunting
• Expanse
• Commended

To gather or summon up (courage, energy, etc.).

• Muster
• Beckoning
• Scraps
• Floating

Rubbing or sharpening something, often referring to a bird scraping its beak on a rock.

• Scrapping
• Derisively
• Swooped
• Curveting

A wide and open area.

• Soaring
• Expanse
• Preening
• Derisively

Flying or rising high in the air.

• Soaring
• Scrapping
• Tapped
• Halt