1. delegate: a person designated to act for or represent another or others; deputy; representative, as in a political convention.
2. environment: the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
3. hostess: a woman who manages a resort or hotel or who directs its social activities.
5. sacred: devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
6. despise: to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe.
7. epitome: a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class: He is the epitome of goodness.
8. leeway: extra time, space, materials, or the like, within which to operate; margin: With ten minutes' leeway we can catch the train.
9. erode: to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration: Battery acid had eroded the engine. Inflation erodes the value of our money.
10. sterilize: to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
11. embassy: a body of persons entrusted with a mission to a sovereign or government, esp. an ambassador and his or her staff.
12. estimate: to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
13. lenient: agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent: He tended to be lenient toward the children. More lenient laws encouraged greater freedom of expression.
14. recollection:
| the act of re-collecting or the state of being re-collected. |
16. senior: older or elder (usually designating the older of two men bearing the same name, as a father whose son is named after him, often written as Sr. or sr. following the name): I would like to see the senior Mr. Hansen Mr. Edward Andrew Hansen, Sr. Compare junior (def. 1).
17. exaggerate: to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately: to exaggerate the difficulties of a situation.
18. medium: in the middle of big and small
19. betray: to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
20. embarrass: to cause confusion and shame to; make uncomfortably self-conscious; disconcert; abash: His bad table manners embarrassed her.
I used www.dictionary.com for the definitions.
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