Nickel & Dimed Vocabulary 1

Jenna began working for ESPN as a college football analyst, it was a ____________in which she was happiest.

• milieu

• penury

• viable

• innocuous

After the item appeared, Tim called her to angrily _________her for airing dirty laundry.

• unencumbered

• beset

• upbraid

• purloin

As a celebrity chef, he was well______________ and therefore had plenty of money.

• upbraid

• residence

• compensate

• encumbered

There are few businesses in my neighborhood. It's mostly ______________.

• mottled

• serf

• purloin

• residence

Norton said ____________, “You know the old expression: ‘Wherever I went, there I was.’ ”

• bedraggled

• ruefully

• listlessly

• viable

Because her client could not afford her fee, she agreed to work for him ______________.

• pro bono

• compensate

• onerous

• penury

Eventually, the system became ridden with a forgery problem as _________ looked for a way around the rules.

• menacing

• mephitic

• mottled

• miscreant

Where Don is confident and arrogant, Bob is _______ and accommodating.

• servile

• menacing

• penury

• broody

He returned in ten minutes or so, having sat for that period behind a neighboring tree to ______ over his circumstances.

• bedraggled

• serf

• brood

• listless

I always suspected it was a ________ on his part to avoid playing, and that he was not really sick.

• stratagem

• upbraid

• compensate

• ruefully