vocab -19-

intrepid

• brave and adventurous

• fearful/cautious

• to be unwilling to accept

  an idea or request

• refuse

bold

• intrepid

• balk

• persnickety

• gaunt

antonym: fearful/cautious

• intrepid

• balk

• gaunt

• whet

balk

• to be unwilling to accept

  an idea or request

• embrace/accept

• too thin, as in suffering

  from hunger or illness

• corpulent/fleshy

refuse

• balk

• intrepid

• gaunt

• persnickety

antonym: embrace/accept

• balk

• whet

• persnickety

• gaunt

gaunt

• too thin, as in suffering

  from hunger or illness

• corpulent/fleshy

• placing too much emphasis

  on minor or unimportant details

• fussy

bony/undernourished

• gaunt

• intrepid

• balk

• whet

antonym: corpulent/fleshy

• gaunt

• balk

• intrepid

• whet

persnickety

• placing too much emphasis

  on minor or unimportant details

• unconcerned/easy-going

• to sharpen the point of

  something

• dull/weaken