Sixth Grade February Word Masters
Mrs. Kelly
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1. clever at taking advantage; crafty, cunning,manipulative / done with or
showing art or skill /
3. having lost motion or the power of exertion or feeling / having too little
energy or strength
5. not easily pulled apart / tending to stick /holding fast or tending to hold
fast; persistent, stubborn, obstinate
7. a dignified selfconfident manner / a way of carrying oneself
8. a flatfish / to struggle or go clumsily / 'to go lame, collapse" / stagger,
fight, struggle
9. full of spirit; lively / spirited
11. chatty, gabby, talkative / having a smooth and fast flow of words in
speaking
15. quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous / vigor; vivacity
16. very eager; enthusiastic, zealous / having so much desire for something
as to be greedy /
17. to stew gently below or just at the boiling point ; boil
18. a rough, prickly case around the seeds of certain plants, as the chestnut
or burdock. / A persistently clinging or nettlesome person or thing /
Any of various rotary cutting tools designed to be attached to a drill /
remove, take, take away, withdraw
20. of, relating to, or used in diagnosis / symptomatic, characteristic
21. imly neat and tidy / dapper, dashing, jaunty, fashionable, stylish
22. to make up for; recover / reimburse, compensate / recuperate, recover
/withhold, deduct,
24. a slender tower generally coming to a point at the top / the highest point
of achievement or development / a high pointed peak / surmount / raise,
lift, elevate
25. dandy
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2. silent by habit; reticent, untalkative,
4. great bravery especially in battle / very great ability /
6. fault, a weakness in character / physical or mental flaw
9. division; separation / lack of harmony; discord /
division in or separation from a church or religious
body
10. speaking or spoken with careless ease and often with
little regard for truth / persuasive, superficial,
12. to go back to a less religious or less moral condition / to
go back to a worse condition
13. amble, walk leisurely
14. to trickle or cause to trickle through something porous;
filter, seep, dribble, trickle / diffuse, spread, spread out,
fan out / recuperate, recover, convalesce
19. to dig or cut a groove in / to drive by force / to cause to
come out especially from bed / overcome, defeat / dig,
delve, hollow / beat, crush, shell, vanquish
20. an undesirable feature; disadvantage
22. a recurrence of illness after a period of improvement /
regress, revert,
23. boil, moil, roil,
23. to stir or shake violently / to produce, move with, or
experience violent motion or agitation; stir / a container
in which milk or cream is stirred or shaken in making
butter /
26. an extremely small or sharp point / to locate or identify
exactly / extremely fine or exact
29. the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite
27. to climb awkwardly / scramble, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter
28. the point in the heavens directly overhead / the highest point
31. a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair / an ornamental plume
of feathers, tassels, or the like, esp. one worn on a helmet or cap /
34. to deceive by false appearance; trick / bamboozle, snow, hoodwink,
pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false / cheat,
rip off, chisel
36. a position of control / steer, maneuver, direct, point, head, guide,
37. to dig or labor with a spade / to make a careful or thorough search for
information /
38. having or expressing great warmth or depth of feeling / fiery,
passionate, ardent
40. to hold or make firm or steady by balancing; hold, carry, bear / to hold
without motion in a steady position; hover/ to put into readiness;
prepare / put, set, place, pose, position, lay
42. weak from or as if from exhaustion / lacking spirit; listless / lacking
force or quickness of movement; slow / lethargic
43. something saved or recovered / relieve, save, rescue, deliver / gather,
garner, collect, pull together
44. being strong and vigorously healthy / hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy
45. change, alter, modify / a sharp point that sticks out and backward / an
often witty remark intended to hurt a person's feelings
46. to move unsteadily / to stumble or hesitate in speech; stammer / to
hesitate in purpose or action; hesitate, waver, waffle
the zenith and directly under the observer / the lowest
point
30. winding path or course / a turn or winding of a stream /
weave, wind, thread, wander
32. a brilliant, sudden, and usually highly successful action
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33. to use trickery to get what one wants / achieve,
accomplish, attain, reach
35. to work or concern oneself lightly or without deep
involvement / to wet by splashing / to paddle or play in
or as if in water / to reach with the bill to the bottom of
shallow water to obtain food /
37. stubbornly determined / persistent, tenacious,
unyielding, stubborn, obstinate
39. having or giving a sense of life, vigor, or activity /
vivacious; colorful
41. churn or foam as if boiling / be upset or in a state of
great excitement / churn, boil,
43. persuasively pleasing : smoothly polite and agreeable /
refined, debonair, diplomatic,