1.venerable
Her Chinese friends referred to the empress as their venerable ancestor.
2.raucous
They heard a bottle being smashed, then more raucous laughter.
3.hag
If someone refers to a woman as a hag, they mean that she is ugly, old, and unpleasant.
4.podium
Unsteadily he mounted the podium, adjustedthe microphone, coughed, and went completely blank.
5.replenish
Three hundred thousand tons of cereals are needed to replenish stocks.
6.grapple
The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
7.bedlam
The crowd went absolutely mad. It was bedlam.
8.omen
Her appearance at this moment is an omen of disaster.
9.defiant
The players are in a defiant mood as they prepare for tomorrow's game.
10.ogle
All she did was hang around ogling the men in the factory.
11.scalp
He smoothed his hair back over his scalp.
12.cork
He popped the cork and the champagne fizzed out over the bottle.
13.humongous
We had a humongous fight just because she left.
14.dismantle
He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.
15.lenient
He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.
