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Anthony's Stack
Level A Unit 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acute | (adj) with a sharp point; keen and alert; sharp and severe; rising quickly to a high point and lasting for a short time |
| bluster | (v) to talk or act in a noisy and threatening way; to blow in stormy gusts; (n) speech that is loud and threatening |
| bungle | (v) to act or work clumsily and awkwardly; to ruin something through clumsiness |
| commentary | (n) a series of notes clarifying or explaining something;an expression of opinion |
| duration | (n) the length of time that something continues or lasts |
| eerie | (adj) causing fear because of strangeness; weird, mysterious |
| facet | (n) one aspect or side of a subject or problem; one of the cut surfaces of a gem |
| fidelity | (n) the state of being faithful; accuracy in details, exactness |
| fray | (n) a brawl, a noisy quarrel; (v) to wear away by rubbing; make ragged or worn; to strain, irritate |
| headstrong | (adj) willful, stubborn |
| inhabitant | (n) one living permanently in a given space |
| numb | (adj) having lost the power of feeling or movement; (v) to dull the feelings of; to cause to lose feeling |
| pacify | (v) to make peaceful or calm; to soothe |
| ravenous | (adj) greedy; very hungry; eager for staisfaction |
| refute | (v) to prove incorrect |
| remorse | (n) deep and painful regret for one's past misdeeds; pangs of conscience |
| setback | (n) something that interferes with progress; a disappointment, unexpected loss or defeat; a steplike recession in a wall |
| smug | (adj) overly self-satisfied, self-righteous |
| synopsis | (n) a brief statement giving a general view of some subject, book, etc. a summary |
| tarry | (v) to delay leaving; to linger, wait; to remain or stay for a while |