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Vocabulary Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| frail | to be weak and thin; fragile |
| repercussion | reverberation; an echoed sound |
| muffle | to make a sound less loud and clear, especially by covering something |
| slackening | to gradually become slower, weaker, less active etc, or to make something do this: |
| savour | to fully enjoy a time or experience: |
| tumultuous | full of activity, confusion, or violence |
| released | to let someone go free, after having kept them somewhere |
| consequence | importance or significance or value |
| squinted | to look with the eyes partly closed |
| compounded | to increase or add to |
| brief | continuing for a short period of time |
| predict | to say that something will happen, before it happens |