4th Vocabulary 6c

the desire to know about something

• curiosity

• drought

• dragonfly

• inflection

a brightly-coloured insect with a long thin body and transparent wings which lives near water

• honeycomb

• dragonfly

• initiative

• hunch

the ability to understand other people’s feelings and problems

• sympathy

• inflection

• empathy

• quest

the way the sound of your voice goes up and down when you are speaking

• inscription

• proponent

• tile

• inflection

someone who supports something or persuades people to do something

• proponent

• initiative

• drought

• abound

the level at which something starts to happen or have an effect

• abound

• threshold

• outdo

• go off track

a solid substance made of fat or oil and used to make candles, polish etc

• compile

• backtrack

• tile

• wax

to go around something

• topple

• cater for

• bypass

• gravel

buildings, roads etc that fall into disrepair degrade into an unusable condition because they have not been maintained

• go off track

• drive the length of

• head for

• stretch

to stray from a planned route

• spring up

• trading post

• circumference

• make a diversion