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stadler
401-425
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| audacity | bold or daring, rudely bold |
| confidant(e-female) | a close trusted friend |
| derived | to get or receive, to deduce, to trace from or to a source |
| disciple | a pupil or follower |
| fabricate | to make, construct, to make up |
| fastidious | not easily pleased, overly refined |
| flout | to show scorn or contempt |
| garrulous | talking too much |
| grimace | a wry or ugly express of pain or disgust |
| impeccable | without defect or error, flawless |
| impious | lacking reverence for God |
| incredulous | unwilling to believe, disbelief |
| largess | generous giving, a generously given gift |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| phobia | abnormal fear |
| precedent | a previous case that serves as an example to be followed |
| premonition | a forewarning, a foreboding |
| quandry | a difficult situation |
| reviled | to use abusive language |
| squeamish | easily nauseated, shocked, or offended, prudish |
| stereotype | a fixed idea or popular conception |
| tenacious | holding or clinging firmly to something |
| vapid | uninspired, dull |
| vertigo | sensation of dizziness |