Fiske 4,6,8,9,11,12

magnanimous

• extremely generous and forgiving

• excessively stingy

• ctions to appease or calm forces that might oppose a favorable outcome

• concise speaking or writing

frugal

• damaging; harmful

• extremely economical

• greedy, desirous of gain

• brief and forceful

rout

• a giving up of something in one's possession

• a complete defeat

• an early warning or messenger of what's to come

• a timely benefit; a blessing

dogma

• a literal scattering or dispersing

• deprived of basic necessities or comforts

• complete failure

• an opinion that is unproven or unprovable

Which of the following is not a synonym for giving something up?

• divest

• forfeit

• denude

• renounce

harbinger

• a timely benefit; a blessing

• an early warning or messenger of what's to come

• complete failure

• excessive wickedness; evilness

refractory

• stubbornly resistant to authority

• damaging; harmful

• presenting favorable circumstances

• scattered or dispersed

Which of the following is NOT is not a synonym for difficult to manage?

• recalcitrant

• obdurate

• intractable

• elegiac

Which of the following means "a grotesque parody of something, a disastrous mockery"

• privation

• adversity

• travesty

• rout

Which of the following is NOT a synonym for "generous"?

• magnanimous

• munificent

• eleemosynary

• parsimonious