chapter 3 context words

allusion

• a contrast to

• a hint about

• an answer for

altruistic

• unselfish

• cheerful

• greedy

appease

• to annoy

• to heal

• to calm

arbitrary

• steady

• slow

• impulsive

assail

• to attack

• to confuse

• to support

banal

• greedy

• unorigianl

• clever

euphemism

• a harsh term

• a term that does not affend

• a foreign term

mercenary

• jealous

• angry

• greedy

syndrome

• a group of symptoms

• a couse

• something required

taint

• to benefit

• to damage

• to start