Vocabulary #6

Though we wish we could obviate a situation through the use of time machines, it just isn't possible.


In the Japanese Drama Hana Kimi, when Sano gets to know Mizuki he is inspired to continue high jumping with much more tenacity.

Personally, I feel this is a large amount of candy but in Candace's mind this amount is just a paucity of candy because she has seen the interior of M&Ms world in Las Vegas.

Cassette tapes have become obsolete because cars no longer instal cassete tape players into their sound system.

The people of the Philippines staged a People Power 2 in the mid-1990s because they found President Joseph Estrada embezzled large amounts of money from the government funds.

Definitions
Embezzle - To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust
Emaciate - to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
Obsolete - no longer in general use
Obviate - prevent the occurrence of
Penchant - A definite liking; a strong inclination
Paucity - smallness of quantity
Sycophant - a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
Taut - tightly drawn
Tenuous - lacking in clarity
Tenacity - persistent determination