| 11. |
significance |
1. importance; consequence: The president wanted
to see him on a matter of significance. 2. meaning: She did not
understand the significance of my nod. |
| 12. |
allowance |
1. a sum of money given or set aside for expenses.
2. amount subtracted to make up for something; discount: The salesman
offered us an allowance of $400 on our old car. 3. allowing; conceding: allowance of a claim. |
| 13. |
defiance |
a defying; standing up against authority and refusing to
recognize or obey it; open resistance to power: the colonists; defiance of the king
led to war. |
| 14. |
reliance |
1. trust or dependence: an unhealthy reliance on
other people's opinions. 2. confidence. |
| 15. |
resistance |
1. act of resisting: The bank clerk made no
resistance to the robbers. 2. power to resist. 3. thing or act
that resists: opposing force; opposition. |
| 16. |
confidence |
1. firm belief or trust. 2. firm belief in
oneself; self-confidence. 3. trust that a person will not tell others what is
told to him. 4. thing told as a secret. |
| 17. |
allegiance |
1. the loyalty owed to one's country or government: I pledge allegiance to the flag. 2. loyalty to any person or thing.: We owe allegiance to our friends. |
| 18. |
residence |
1. the place where a person lives; house; home;
abode. 2. a residing; living; dwelling. 3. period of residing in a
place: They spent a residence of ten years in France. |
| 19. |
experience |
1. what happens to a person; what is seen, done, or
lived through. 2. knowledge or skill gained by seeing, doing, or living
through things; practice. 3. have happen to one; feel: experience great
pain. |
| 20. |
difference |
1. being different. 2. way of being
different; point in which people or things are different. 3. amount by which
one quantity id different from another: what is left after subtracting one number
from another: The difference between 2 and 6 is 4. |
