Chapter4

1.venerable

Her Chinese friends referred to the empress as their venerable ancestor.

2.raucous

They heard a bottle being smashed, then more raucous laughter.

3.hag

If someone refers to a woman as a hag, they mean that she is ugly, old, and unpleasant.

4.podium

Unsteadily he mounted the podium, adjustedthe microphone, coughed, and went completely blank.

5.replenish

Three hundred thousand tons of cereals are needed to replenish stocks.

6.grapple

The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.

7.bedlam

The crowd went absolutely mad. It was bedlam.

8.omen

Her appearance at this moment is an omen of disaster.

9.defiant

The players are in a defiant mood as they prepare for tomorrow's game.

10.ogle

All she did was hang around ogling the men in the factory.

11.scalp

He smoothed his hair back over his scalp.

12.cork

He popped the cork and the champagne fizzed out over the bottle.

13.humongous

We had a humongous fight just because she left.

14.dismantle

He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.

15.lenient

He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.