Unit 14 Fill-in-the-Blanks
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 amenable | They will be _____________to your instructions as long as what you say makes sense. |
| berate | He removed the dog from obedience school when he discovered that they had _____________ it too harshly. |
| carnage | Until television broadcast film footage of it, the __________ of war was rarely made real to far-off civilian populations. |
| credulous | Though he was no dolt, his ______________ nature and desire to believe the best of people made him easy to deceive. |
| criterion | She was disturbed to discover that the ______________ for the award was based on style, not substance. |
| deplete | Dwelling on all that could go wrong with your project will ________________ your energy and courage. |
| expatiate | We would like you to _____________ on the interesting matters you only touched upon earlier today. |
| extraneous | One handy way to dodge a difficult question is to earnestly begin talking about something _______________ to it. |
| inception | He has worked here quietly and steadily since the firm's ______________, and knows how to do everybody's job. |
| infirmity | Was his "deafness" an _______________ of old age, or a lack of interest in the conversation? |
| jejune | My favorite teacher turned history from a ____________ study of the distant past into a relevant topic of discussion. |
| obdurate | Vincent van Gogh was _______________ in painting whatever he wished, despite the fact that no one would buy his pictures. |
| potpourri | The furniture was a _______________ of hand-me-downs from my father's parents and my stepmother's uncle and aunt. |
| precocious | She showed a _______________ talent for science. |
| sadistic | The Geneva Convention of 1949 outlawed torture and ________________ treatment of prisoners of war. |
| sententious | The _______________ advice, though wise, was too general to help their particular situation. |
| supplicate | He chose to _______________ for mercy not on his own account, but so that his wife would not suffer. |
| surfeit | A _______________ of food, drink and clowning puts Shakespeare's Falstaff in disgrace with the King. |
| tortuous | The cameras had to be portable in order to follow the athletes up the narrow and ______________ path to the summit. |
| turgid | The heavy rains turned the fields swampy and the river _______________. |
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