I Will Always Write Back, Vocabulary 3

1. the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

• Resilience

• Siphoned

• Preposterous

• Cynical

take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission

• Ambassador

• Reicprocate

• Appropriate

• Ruse

a tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord.

• Siphoned

• Preposterous

• Mandate

• Appropriated

a person who acts as a representative or promoter of a specified activity, like a diplomat representing a foreign country

• Injustice

• Reprieve

• Ambassador

• Appropriated

contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous

• Ruse

• Cynical

• Preposterous

• Injustice

respond to (a gesture or action) by making a corresponding one

• Reciprocate

• Resilience

• Ruse

• Mandate

a cancellation or postponement of a punishment

• Reprieve

• Ruse

• Preposterous

• Resilience

believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.

• Siphoned

• Cynical

• Reprieve

• Ruse

I ​ (a)   her kindness by giving her flowers from my garden.

• reciprocated
• Mandated
• Siphoned
• Appropriated

My father, ​ (a)   that the e-mail announcing he had won a free trip was only a ​ (b)   , sent the e-mail straight to his spam folder.

• cynical
• ruse