SAT- Vocabulary Practice

(v.)  to be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of

Everyone lost their money when the treasurer _______________ with all the society's savings.

Despite all the chaos around him the captain remained calm and assumed an air of ____________

I have no wish to _______ these activities but I do have some sympathy with the perpetrators. 

The cops stopped the car because it had followed a(n) ________course down the road, swerving.  

(v.)  extradite

(adj.) lack of courage 

(v.) to pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended

(n). anathema

(adj.) exercising the will

(v.) to overcome by force of will

(v.) encroach