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| with a sharp point; keen and alert; sharp and severe rising quickly to a high point and lasting for a short time (clever, penetrating) |
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| to talk or act in a noisy and threatening way; to blow in stormy gusts. Speech that is loud and threatening (spout, rant, brag, swagger, bravado) |
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| to act or work clumsily and awkwardly; to ruin something through clumsiness (blunder, botch, mess up) |
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| a series of notes clarifying or explaining something; an expression of opinion (explanation, remarks, narration, description, account, review, analysis) |
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| the length of time that something continues or lasts |
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| causing fear because of strangeness; weird, mysterious (frightening, spooky, creepy) |
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| one aspect or side of a subject or problem; one of the cut surfaces of a gem (angle, characteristic, factor, element, cut) |
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| the state of being faithful, accuracy in details, exactness (loyality, faithfulness) |
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| a brawl, a noisy quarrel. To wear away by rubbing; make ragged or worn; to strain, irritate (scuffle, unravel) |
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| willful, stubborn (obstinate, mulish, unruly) |
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| one living permanently in a give place (resident, native, occupant, tenant) |
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| having lost the power of feeling or movement. To dull feelings of; to cause to lose feeling (unfeeling, insensible, dazed, deaden) |
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| to make peaceful or calm; to soothe (mollify, placate) |
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| to prove incorrect (disprove, rebut) |
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| deep and painful regret for one's past misdeeds; pangs of conscience (guilt) |
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| something that interferes with progress; a disappointment, unexpected loss or defeat; a steplike recession in a wall (failure, reversal) |
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| overly self-satisfied, self-righteous (conceited, complacent) |
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| a brief statement giving a general view of some subject, book, etc.; a summary (outline, digest, abstract) |
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| to delay leaving; to linger, wait; to remain or stay for awhile (dawdle, dally) |
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| greedy; very hungry; eager for satisfaction (starved, famished, voracious, wolfish) |
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