Vocab Unit 5
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- Remorse
- Deep and painful regret for one's past misdeeds (Synonym: guilt Antonym: clear conscience, guiltlessness)
- Numb
- Having lost power of feeling or movement (Synonym: unfeeling, insensible, dazed, deaden Antonym: sensitive, alert)
- Fray
- a brawl, a noisy quarrel (Synonym: scuffle, unravel)
- Tarry
- To delay leaving (Synonym: dawdle, dally Antonym: rush, hasten, leave, depart)
- Headstrong
- Willful, stubborn (Synonym: obstinate, mulish, unruly Antonym: obedient, docile, submissive)
- Bluster
- To talk or act in a noisy and threatening way (Synonym: spout, rant, brag, swagger, bravado)
- Acute
- Keen and alert (Synonyms: clever, penetrating... Antonym: Dull, blunted, mild, stupid, obtuse)
- Refute
- To prove incorrect (Synonym: disprove, rebut Antonym: prove, support, confirm, corroborate)
- Ravenous
- Greedy, very hungry (Synonym: starved, famished, voracious, wolfish Antonym: not hungry, well-fed, satisfied, satiated)
- Fidelity
- The state of being faithful; accuracy in details, exactness (Synonym: loyalty, faithfulness Antonym: disloyalty, treachery, inexactness)
- Bungle
- To ruin something through clumsiness (Synonym: blunder, botch, mess up)
- Setback
- Something that interferes with progress (Synonym: failure, reversal Antonym: advance, gain, progress, triumph)
- Smug
- Overly self-satisfied, self-righteous (Synonym: conceited, complacent Antonym: discontented, disgruntled)
- Pacify
- To make peaceful or calm; to soothe (Synonym: mollify, placate Antonym: anger, arouse, stir up, foment, ignite)
- Commentary
- An expression of opinion (Synonym: explanation, remarks, narration, description, account, review, analysis)
- Synopsis
- A brief statement of giving view of some subject, book, etc. (Synonym:outline, digest, abstract)
- Inhabitant
- One living permanently in a given place (Synonym: resident, native, occupant, tenant Antonym: stranger, outsider, visitor, foreigner)
- Facet
- One aspect or side of a subject or problem; one of the cut surfaces of a get (Synonym: angle, characteristic, factor, element, cut)
- Duration
- The length of time that something continues or lasts
- Eerie
- Causing fear because of strangeness; weird, mysterious (Synonym: frightening, spooky, creepy)