May-26th's Word List

Questions:

1. Over the years, people who seem to "have it all" have captured the hearts and conquered the minds of hundreds of others who helped boost them, rung by rung, to the top of whatever corporate or social ladder they chose. 
2. Wanna-bes wandering around at the foot of the ladder often gaze up and grouse that big boys at the top are snobs.
3. When big players don't give them their friendship, love or business, they call them "cliquish" or accuse them of belonging to an "old-boy network". Some grumble they hit their heads against a "glass ceiling".
4. The complaining Little Leaguers never realize the rejection was their own fault. They'll never know they blew the affair, the friendship, or the deal because of their own communication fumbles.
5. Many years ago, a drama teacher, exasperated at my bad acting in a college play, shouted, "No! No! Your body is belying your words.
6. Every tiny movement, every body position, he howled, divulges your private thought.

Answers:

    1.       Rung  - A rod or bar forming a step of a ladder; A crosspiece between the legs of a chair; The spoke in a wheel.

    2.       Wanna-bes - Some-one who acts like and wishes they are of a certain clique, but in truth aren’t, often they fill the more complex criteria of the clique, but miss the defining quality. Their character often seems forced.

    3.       Gaze – (n) A steady, fixed look. (v) To look steadily, intently, and with fixed attention.

    4.      Grouse – (n) A cause for complaint; a grievance. (v) To complain; grumble.

    5.       Snob – (n) One who tends to patronize, rebuff, or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire, or seek association with people regarded as social superiors. One who affects an offensive air of self-satisfied superiority in matters of taste or intellect.

(N1): a) a person who strives to associate with those of higher social status and who behaves condescendingly to others Compare inverted snob. B)  (as modifier) snob appeal

(N2):  a person having similar pretensions with regard to his tastes, etc. an intellectual snob.
6. Cliquish - behaving like a clique, not making other people feel welcome.
7. Fumble - To proceed awkwardly and uncertainly; blunder: fumble through a speech;  To touch or handle nervously or idly; To grope awkwardly to find or to accomplish something;  To touch or handle clumsily or idly; to do something awkwardly, especially when using your hands; 
8. Exasperated - To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly.
9. Belying -  To give a false representation to; misrepresent; contradict.
10. Divulge - to make something secret known