Incredulity from "Efficient and Flexible Reading" pg. 106
"Their incredulity persists even now that I am a senior resident, working in one of the world's busiest hospital emergency rooms."
Clues - She should be taken more seriously considering she is working a place that should speak for itself.
Synonyms - Disbelief
Antonyms - Approval
Definition - Inability or unwillingness to believe.
Sentence - "Believers find the incredulity of atheists diconcerting."
Preempt from "Efficient and Flexible Reading" pg. 106
"My African-American peers have their own ways of dealing with it: some even preempt suspicous patients by saying, "Yes, I am a doctor, and you check online when you get home."
Clues - He's answering a question without it being asked.
Synonyms - to be ready, before hand, predict
Antonyms - to fall behind, late, lag
Definition - to acquire or appropriate before someone else.
Sentence - "A preemtptive strike can make all the difference between winning and losing a war."
Pristine from "Efficient and Flexible Reading" pg. 105
"Proudly wearing my pristine white coat and feeling sure that I was going to save the world, I walked into my patient's room."
Clues - You would normally be proud to have a new nice looking object rather than a beat up old one.
Synonyms - Spotless, tidy, new
Antonyms - Dirty, unmanaged, old
Definition - having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
Sentence - "My guitars are no longer in pristine condition due to the amount that I've used them over the years."
