To corrupt, make worse by the addition of something of lesser value

• gibe

• deploy

• adulterate

• reiterate

Able to use both hands equally well

• stolid

• ambidextrous

• dour

• verbatim

Gloomy, ill-humored

• insidious

• dour

• opulent

• pliable

To stare with open mouth

• reiterate

• augment

• gibe

• gape

To utter taunting words

• augment

• reiterate

• gape

• gibe

When the team manager saw that his star player would command a much higher salary with another team, he decided to _____ the player's salary by almost a third.

• deploy

• augment

• gibe

• reiterate

Inclined to overstatement, the young man who was not chosen as the lead in the musical wrung his hands and cried, "I am _____ of happiness, deprived of my dreams!"

• insidious

• opulent

• bereft

• unkempt

We could tell that the science teacher was a former drill sergeant; he always referred to organizing the class for an experiment as "_____ the troops."

• augmenting

• deploying

• adulterating

• reiterating

Jackie Robinson showed _____ in enduring the taunts of those who did not want to see baseball desegregated.

• fortitude

• intimation

• guise

• gibe

Homeowners should be wary of con artists roaming the community, who pass themselves off in the _____ of licensed roofers, extort large amounts of cash for materials, then promptly disappear.

• fortitude

• gibe

• guise

• intimation