Unit 5: Cluster 1

Edge: Level C, Volume 2, Unit 5, Cluster 1.

Here are links to the other clusters within Unit 5: "Say It with Flowers" and "The Journey", "Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death", "Be-ers and Doers" and "My Moment of Truth"
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  1. harmonize
    go together
  2. disarm
    make less hostile; win over
  3. temperament
    your usual mood
  4. inquisitive
    given to questioning
  5. glutton
    a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
  6. fault
    the quality of falling short of perfection
  7. ensuing
    following immediately and as a result of what went before
  8. gape
    look with amazement
  9. speechless
    temporarily incapable of speaking
  10. comeback
    a quick reply to a question or remark
  11. plainly
    in a simple manner without extravagance
  12. transaction
    conducting business within or between groups
  13. account
    furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
  14. flit
    move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
  15. irritate
    cause annoyance in
  16. fume
    be mad, angry, or furious
  17. sap
    a person who lacks good judgment or is easily tricked
  18. profit
    excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time
  19. nudge
    push against gently
  20. fired
    having lost your job
  21. wage
    payment for work
  22. integrity
    an undivided or unbroken completeness with nothing wanting
  23. melancholy
    a feeling of thoughtful sadness
Created on Thu Jul 21 13:30:05 EDT 2016 (updated Tue Aug 16 11:24:00 EDT 2016)

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