Unit 5 Vocabulary - Definitions

With a sharp point; keen or alert; sharp and severe

• Acute
• Headstrong
• Numb
• Smug

To talk or act in a noisy and threatening way; to blow in stormy gusts or a speech that is loud and threatening

• Bluster
• Pacify
• Refute
• Tarry

To act or work clumsily and awkwardly; to ruin something through clumsiness

• Bungle
• Pacify
• Refute
• Tarry

A series of notes clarifying or explaining something; an expression of opinion

• Commentary
• Duration
• Inhabitant
• Fidelity

The length of time something continues or lasts

• Commentary
• Duration
• Inhabitant
• Fidelity

Causing fear because of strangeness, weird, mysterious

• Eerie
• Acute
• Ravenous
• Smug

One aspect or side of a subject or problem; one of the cut surfaces of a gem

• Facet
• Inhabitant
• Fray
• Setback

The state of being faithful; accuracy in details, exactness

• Fidelity
• Synopsis
• Fray
• Remorse

A brawl, a noisy quarrel; to wear away by rubbing; make ragged or worn; unravel

• Commentary
• Synopsis
• Fray
• Remorse

Willful, stubborn

• Eerie
• Smug
• Headstrong 
• Numb