TANGIBLE

• Perceptible by touch
• His hopes and dreams were almost tangible.

ZEALOUS

• Having or showing great enthusiasm and pleasure
• The girl was so zealous it was finally her birthday

SCRUPLE

• Feeling of doubt, or hesitation
• The boy felt scruple during his test

INCITE

• Encourage or stir up
• The football coach had to incite the team.

BOON

• Something beneficial or helpful
• The iPads are boon to the teachers and students

UNCANNY

• Strange or mysterious
• The haunted house was uncanny
• Uncanny is to strange as normal is to regular

EVADE

• Escape or avoid by cleverness or trickery
• The dog evade and ran away

PREVAIL

• Prove more powerful then opposing force
• The Americans prevailed over the British

SUBSTAIN

• Maintain or support oneselfs
• The college student can subsist herself

CULTIVATED

• Refined and well educated
• The man was cultivated

CONDONE

• Accept or allow to continue
• The teacher condoned to watch the students argue

FRACTIOUS

• Irritable and quarrelsome
• The baby was very loud and fractious
• Irritable is to fractious as pleasant is to good

MARAUDING

• Going about in search of things to steal or people to attack
• The Pirates had a marauding look on their faces

DILEMMA

• A problem which you have a tough choice to choose
• The girl had a dilemma to go to the beach or the mall

IMPERATIVE

• A vital importance
• Doing your homework is imperative

DEBACLE

• A sudden ignominious fail
• The girl tried to lie but her parents caught her so it was a debacle

TRUCLENT

• Eager or quick to fight or argue
• The boxer was very truculent

MUSTER

• Assemble
• The avengers assembled to fight

BARBAROUS

• Savagely cruel
• The man was barbarous to the bug
• Humane is to good as barbarous is to bad

DURESS

• Violence, or other action brought to bear to force someone against there will
• The robber duresses the banker to give him the money

IMPASSE

• A situation in which no progress is available
• There was impasse at the meeting tonight

AMENITIES

• A desirable or useful feature or facility
• The hospital is an amenity

AU REVOIR

• Goodbye
• The old lady said au revoir
• Au revoir is to goodbye as hola is to hello

EXODUS

• A mass departure of people
• There was an exodus of people at the airport
• One person coming in as a mass of people leaving

QUARRY

• A place usually a large pit where stones have been extracted
• The ocean had a little quarry in it

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