Quizlet vocabulary flashcards unit 5

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  1. acute: (adj) with a sharp point; keen and alert; sharp and severe; rising quickley to a high point lasting for a short time
  2. bluster: (Verb) to talk or act in a noisy and threatening way; to blow in stormy guests; sppech that is loud and threatening
  3. bungle: Verb to act or work clumsily and awkwardly; to ruin something through clumsiness
  4. commentary: a series of notes clarifying or explaining something; an expression of opinion
  5. duration: Noun the length of time that something continues or lasts
  6. eerie: Adj causing fear because of stangness; weird; mysterious
  7. facet: Noun one aspect or side of a subject or problem; one of the cut sufaces of a gem
  8. fidelity: Noun the state of being faithful; accuracy in details, exactness
  9. fray: Noun a brawl, a noisy quarrel to wear away by rubbling; make ragged or worn; to strain, irrritate
  10. headstrong: Adj willful, stubborn
  11. inhabitant: Noun one living permanently in a given place
  12. numb: adj having lost the power of feeling or movement to dull the feeing of; to cause to lose feeling
  13. Pacify: verb to make peaceful or calm; to soothe
  14. ravenous: adj greedy; very hungry; eager for satisfaction
  15. refute: verb to prove incorrect
  16. remorse: noun deep and painful regret for one's past misdeeds; pangs of conscience
  17. setback: noun something that interferes with progress; a disspapontment unexspected loss or defeat; a steplike recession in a wall
  18. smug: adj overly self- satisfied, self- righteous
  19. synopsis: noun a brief statement giving a general view of some subject, book, summary
  20. tarry: verb to delay leaving, to linge, wait; to remain or stay for a while