| Term | Definition |
| acute | sharp and severe; keen & alert |
| bluster | speech that is loud and threatening; to blow in stormy gusts |
| bungle | to ruin something due to clumsiness |
| commentary | notes explaining or clarifying; an expression of opinion |
| duration | lenght of time something lasts |
| eerie | weird; mysterious; causing fear due to strangeness |
| facet | one aspect or side of a subject or problem; a cut surface on a gem |
| fidelity | faithful; accuracy |
| fray | a noisy quarrel or fight; make ragged or worn; irritate |
| headstrong | willful; stubborn |
| inhabitant | resident; occupant, native, living in a given place |
| numb | lost feeling or movement; dazed |
| pacify | to make peaceful or calm; to soothe |
| ravenous | greedy; very hungry |
| refute | to prove incorrect, disprove; rebut |
| remorse | deep and painful regret; guilt |
| setback | something that interferes with progress; a disappointment; unexoected loss or defeat; recession in a wall |
| smug | conceited, overly self-satisfied |
| synopsis | a summary |
| tarry | to delay leaving; to linger, wait; dawdle |