The loss of her job left lucy in a (tranquility, placidity, precarious) financial situation. however, she is coping with her distress with great (tranquility, vertiginous, desultory). she is surprisingly calm about her situation. she is hopeful that better days are (imminent, usurped, desultory).

Delegates: representatives who cast votes at a political party's national convention. binding: if a primary or caucus is “binding” that means the delegates won in that contest are legally bound to vote for a particular candidate at the parties national convention.a primary is a preliminary election used to determine a party's nominee for a specific office. the winner of the party's caucus, or primary, wins the party nomination for that state. then the delegates meet at their party's national party convention, which is a formal gathering of all party delegates from all states.