Chapter 5 Flash Cards
Word: Acute
Meaning: with a sharp point, keen and alert, sharp and severe, rising quickly to a high point and lasting for a short time
Word: Bluster
Meaning! To talk or act in a noisy and threatening way, to blow in stormy gusts, speech that is loud and threatening
Word: Bungle
Meaning: to act or work clumsily and awkwardly, to ruin something through clumsiness
Word: Commentary
Meaning: a series of notes clarifying or explaining something, an expression of opinion
Word: Duration
Meaning: the length of time that something continues or lasts
Word: Eerie
Meaning: causing fear because of strangeness, weird mysteries
Word: Facet
Meaning: one aspect or side of a subject or problem, one of the cut surfaces of a gem
Word: Fidelity
Meaning:the state of being faithful, accuracy in details, exactness
Word: Fray
Meaning: a brawl, a noise quarrel, to wear away by rubbing, make ragged or worn, to strain, irritate
Word: Headstrong
Meaning: willful, stubborn
Word: Inhabitant
Meaning: one living permanently ina given place
Word: Numb
Meaning: having lost the power of feeling or movement, to dull the feelings of, to cause to lose feeling
Word: Pacify
Meaning: to make peaceful or calm to soothe
Word: Ravenous
Meaning: greedy, very hungry, eager for satisfaction
Word: Refute
Meaning: to prove incorrect
Word: Remorse
Meaning: deep and painful regret for one’s past misdeeds, pangs of conscience
Word: Setback
Meaning: something that interferes with progres, a disappointment unexpected loss or defeat, a step like recession in a wall
Word: Smug
Meaning: overly self satisfied, self righteous
Word: Synopsis
Meaning: a brief statement giving a general view of a some subject
Word: Tarry
Meaning: to delay leaving, to linger wait, to remain or stay for a while
