Bolded one's are the ones with the pictures
1)Embezzle (verb): to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care.
It's amazing how so many negative words can be associated with the 43rd president. Two words to describe embezzle in a different kind of way "Tax Cuts" anyone?
2)Emaciate (verb):
to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
Typical, thought of an anorexic..
4)Obviate (verb): to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
Again, seat belts save 40,000+ lives every year in a car crash, if that isn't obviate, then i dont know what is.
5)Penchant (noun): a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.
I love spaghetti.
6)Paucity (noun):
1.
smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
2.
smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness.
Amazing how the scarcity of an item that you need to live gets in to your head, whether it be food or money.
7)Sycophant (noun): a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
8)Taut (adjective):
1.
tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
2.
emotionally or mentally strained or tense: taut nerves.
3.
in good order or condition; tidy; neat
9)Tenuous (adjective):
1.
thin or slender in form, as a thread.
2.
lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak: a tenuous argument.
10)Tenacity (noun): the act of holding fast or highly retentive.
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