Vocabulary G6 U2-4

Match the following

• inventor (n)

• to attempt to repair or improve something

• gadget (n)

• great delight

• glee (n)

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

• to tinker (v)

• person who was the first to create a device

• hunched (adj)

• small machine or piece of electronic equipment

Match the following

• to mutter (v)

• very smart person

• ragged (adj)

• unable to hear

• to scrape (v)

• to complain about something in a quiet voice

• genius (n)

• (of cloth or clothes) old and torn

• deaf (adj)

• to push or pull a sharp object across something

Match the following

• to dare (v)

• having a sharp, pointed shape

• sombre (adj)

• serious and sad

• to glimmer (v)

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

• jagged (adj)

• very large, round rock

• boulder (n)

• to be unafraid of doing something

Match the following

• to shudder (v)

• tool to make a horse go faster

• carriage (n)

• place for animals to eat grass

• pasture (n)

• to shake because of fear

• gloomy (adj)

• dark

• whip (n)

• vehicle pulled by a horse or horses

Match the following

• ghastly (adj)

• dead body of an animal

• carcass (n)

• wet and shiny

• hideous (adj)

• not the usual shape

• deformed (adj)

• very shocking or horrible

• glistening (adj)

• very ugly, disgusting

Match the following

• ferocious (adj)

• small dog

• terrier (n)

• (informal) stomach

• tummy (n)

• long jump

• saliva (n)

• liquid made by the mouth

• bound (n)

• very aggressive or violent