Reading challenge 5 GREEN SAHARA

GREEN SAHARA

DROP:

• bead, bubble, driblet, drip, droplet, globule, pearl, tear
• dab, dash, mouthful, nip, pinch, shot sip, spot, taste, tot, trace, trickle
• abyss, chasm, declivity, descent, fall, plunge, precipice, slope
• cut, decline, decrease, deterioration, downturn, fall-off, lowering, reduction, slump

BENEATH:
below, inferior to, less than, lower than, unbefitting, underneath, unworthy of

LIVABLE:
• bearable, endurable, passable, sufferable, supportable, tolerable, worth living, worthwhile
• companionable, compatible, congenial, easy, easy to live with, harmonious, sociable

TILT:

• cant, heel, incline, lean, list, slant, slope, tip
• attack, break a lance, clash, contend, cross swords, duel, encounter, fight, joust, lock horns, overthrow, spar

WOBBLES:

• seesaw, shake, sway, teeter, totter, tremble, vibrate, waver
• be unable to make up one's mind, be undecided, dither fluctuate, hesitate, shillyshally swither vacillate, waver

SHARP(LY):

• acute, distressing, excruciating, fierce, intense, painful, piercing, severe, shooting, sore, stabbing, stinging, violent
• clear, clear-cut, crisp, distinct, well-defined
• acerb, acrimonious, barbed, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, harsh, hurtful, mordacious, mordant, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, severe, trenchant, vitriolic
• alert, apt, astute, bright, clever, discerning, knowing, long-headed, observant, on the ball penetrating, perceptive, quick, quick-witted, ready, subtle
• artful, crafty, cunning, dishonest, fly shrewd, sly, smart, unscrupulous, wily

PONDER:
brood, cerebrate, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, examine, excogitate, give thought to, meditate, mull over, muse, puzzle over, rack one's brains, reflect, ruminate, study, think, weigh