| A | B |
|---|
| insolvent | Be careful how you spend your first paycheck or you will quckly become ---. |
| lucrative | A job paying $9 an hour today will not be so --- ten years from now when you're married and need a job paying $25 an hour. |
| novelty | A new car is a --- until the first scratch. |
| precedent | When you start dating someone new, be careful not to begin with too many concessions. You're setting a --- you may not want to keep up. |
| precocious | A bright child often may be called ---but that same child at 16 may only be obnoxious. |
| reprimand | John knew he was late to class, but he did not expect the sharp --- from the teacher. |
| servile | Teenagers resent having to be --- whenever older adults are present. |
| skeptic | Some one who is tricked often will quickly become a ---; he won't trust anybody. |
| torpid | Third period is a difficult time to teach English; the students have just eaten lunch and are --- and unresponsive. |
| tortuous | The Appalachian Trail is fun to hike but it is --- and very difficult in places. |
