The island is a colony: however, in most matters it is ____ and receives no orders from the mother country.
  • autonomous
Learners of English as a foreign language often fail to ____ between unfamiliar sounds in that language.
  • distinguish
The pond was a place of reek and corruption, of ____ smells and of oxygen-starved fish breathing through laboring gills.
  • fetid
The model paraded in front of the celebrities with ____; it was impossible to tell that this was her first assignment.
  • panache
‘Bank on’ in the sentence ‘You really can’t bank on the support of this neighbor of yours’ means-
  • depend on