Give yourself a big hand after you've finished learning these vocabulary words.

• closefisted (rhymes with, nose twisted): same thing as tightfisted, stingy, closing your hand on money.
• highhanded (rhymes with, fly branded): overbearing, arbitrary. Your boss may highhandedly tell you to come in to work over the weekend, even though he knows you had a family event scheduled. Think of a highhanded person as having the upper hand.
• ironhanded (eye urn handed): in a rigorous, severely controlling manner. An ironhanded coach slams down her fist and tells you in no uncertain terms that two-a-day practices will be the norm for the next month.
• openhanded (oh pen handed): generous, giving or sharing freely.
• tightfisted (rhymes with, bite twisted): stingy, holding tight to money.
• underhanded (rhymes with, blunder handed): secret, sly, deceitful. An underhanded spy might steal a secret, then hand it under the table to the Bad Guys.