 Which word least describes Charlie?
The Academy, with its great halls and classrooms and laboratories, lay hollow and silent, an exhausted thing at sleep after spawning its first-born. And perhaps most important of all, they'll make other men think of the stars and look up at them and feel humility—for mankind needs humility." Just one, which I'd sent to Charlie Taggart. Charlie scorned the skin-tight uniforms of the government service and wore a shiny black suit that was a relic of Everson's early-day Moon Patrol. "Charlie has only twenty-four hours liberty. Charlie was muttering under his breath, smoldering like a bomb about to reach critical mass. You kept looking at me until I had to ask: "What are you thinking, Laura?"
 regretful
 proud  sick  experienced  regretful