Were you ever given a gift that you would never wear because it was too
garishor tawdry? Do you avoid pugnaciousor belligerentpeople because you
do not like to fight? This is the third of four chapters of word pairs—pairs
of words that are almost exactly the same in meaning. Each word pair chap-
ter contains ten sets of synonyms. You can find the answers to each ques-
tion in this section at the end of the chapter.